| Aspect: | Thin (1 to 3mm) white encrusting rubbery cushion of variable size and shape homes spreads of small black zooids that form a colony. This sample was photographed on the buoy rope of the Gustavia wreck that lies at depth of some 40m, south of Ilets Pigeon. The macro view helps to understand the filiation of this formation with tunicates: the black zooids with their individual bucal siphons are arranged within the white tunic, but use a larger, plain, common outflow openings. |
| Population: | Rare. |
| Notable feature: | Remark: To our knowledge, this variety of botrylloides - a form of tunicate colony - does not seem to have been described to date |
| Environment: | Roughly 20mm diameter rope substrate in this case. |
| Behaviour: | - |
