Pelagic tunicate reproduction, large single salp produces a chain of smaller salps as it reproduces while adrift on the open ocean. San Diego, California, USA
Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 26842
Format: Digital 2:3
Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 26842
Format: Digital 2:3
Keywords: animal, animalia, california, chordata, creature, cyclosalpa, cyclosalpa affinis, invertebrate, jellyfish, marine, marine invertebrate, nature, notochord, ocean, oceans, outdoors, outside, pacific, pacific, pelagic tunicate, plankton, planktonic, reproduction mating, salp, salp chain, salpida, salpidae, san diego, submarine, thalicea, thalicea, tunicate, tunicates, underwater, urochordata, usa, wildlife, zooplankton
Categories:
- Animal > Marine Invertebrate > Marine Invertebrate Behavior > Reproduction / Mating
- Animal > Marine Invertebrate > Plankton > Jellyfish
- Animal > Marine Invertebrate > Plankton > Salp
- Animal > Marine Invertebrate > Tunicates > Salp
- Location > Oceans > Pacific > California (USA) / Baja California (Mexico)
- Subject > Technique > Underwater
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