Pelagic tunicate reproduction, Cyclosalpa affinis, #26842

Pelagic tunicate reproduction, large single salp produces a chain of smaller salps as it reproduces while adrift on the open ocean., Cyclosalpa affinis, natural history stock photograph, photo id 26842
Pelagic tunicate reproduction, large single salp produces a chain of smaller salps as it reproduces while adrift on the open ocean.

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
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