Husbandry
Polycarpa pigmentata (Herdman, 1906)
Polycarpa pigmentata is a large sea squirt with a wrinkled leathery body and a pair of siphons.This sea squirt inhabit hard substrates in shallow water with a good water movement.The body is covered by a lot of other organism, including other tunicates.
This large solitary sea squirt is a suspension feeder .Better left in the wild !
Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Polycarpa (Genus) > Polycarpa pigmentata (Species)
Polycarpa pigmentata is a large sea squirt with a wrinkled leathery body and a pair of siphons.This sea squirt inhabit hard substrates in shallow water with a good water movement.The body is covered by a lot of other organism, including other tunicates.
This large solitary sea squirt is a suspension feeder .Better left in the wild !
Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Polycarpa (Genus) > Polycarpa pigmentata (Species)