Description: Large pelagic colonial tunicate, can be as long as 10-20m. Pyrosomas are characteristcally open at one end and form a point at the other. Unable to identifiy this species of Pyrosoma from these images but this example bears quite a close similarity to Pyrosoma spinosum which is found in the Gulf of Mexico.
Item Type: Image
Title: Pyrosoma sp.
Copyright: SERPENT project
Species: Pyrosoma sp.
Behaviour: Suspended in the water column
Site: Atlantic -- South Atlantic -- Block 31
Site Description: Midwater
Depth (m): 856.08
Latitude: 6 deg 12' 21" S
Longitude: 13 deg 43' 07" W
Countries: West Africa -- Angola
Rig: Seven Seas
Project Partners: BP, Subsea 7
Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean
Deposited On: 09 December 2010