• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

JadeCraven.Org

My Nature Blog

  • About
  • Trip Reports
  • Life List

Cool Sea Squirt At Eastern Beach

June 22, 2021 by Jade Craven

45-IMG_9489

I was walking along Eastern Beach and feeling a bit smug about all the sea cucumbers I’d found. Mum had dashed off to go to the loo and I was proud of the cool stuff I had found.

Then I stumbled across this.

Mum LOVES sea squirts. We’ve noticed some at Apollo Bay before, but they were always in the water. This had washed up and would allow mum to get a really close look. I called her and asked her to meet me, but didn’t tell her what I had found.

She was so stoked. I’m used to seeing sea squirts when they are attached to objects, but not washed up like this.

54-IMG_9500

I posted on the marine field naturalist group I’m part of. At first it was suggested that it was a type of sea squirt called Cunjevoi, also known as Pyurastolonifera. The Australian Museum has more information about them. They say that ‘around the edge of the low-tide mark that often forms mats over the rocks.’

This didn’t gel with my experience with the marine environments in that area, however we *had* gone down there this day because there had been strong winds in the previous days.

A separate person, who focuses on ascidians, said it looked more like Pyura dalbyi. A quick google shows this was formally described in 2011 due to a revision with the Pyura stolonifera species complex.

Normally, this would be the point where I set boundaries and decide that this is waaaay too advanced for me. However, mum loves sea squirts. I’m doing to try to learn as much as I can about the different species so we can both learn as much as we can. Who knows, we might even discover something new?

The rest of this post shows the sea squirt from different angles.

55-IMG_9501

47-IMG_9492

48-IMG_9493

49-IMG_9495

50-IMG_9496

51-IMG_9497

 

53-IMG_9499

52-IMG_9498

56-IMG_9504

Filed Under: Eastern Beach

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Two Varients of Botryllus Schlosseri in Apollo Bay Harbour
  • Pied Cormorant Eating A Fish At Apollo Bay Harbour
  • Australian Fur Seals at Apollo Bay Harbour
  • Injured Seal at Apollo Bay Harbour
  • Queenscliff Banksia

Categories

  • Apollo Bay
  • Barwon River, Geelong
  • Bellarine Peninsula
  • Big Things
  • Brisbane Ranges
  • Chiltern
  • Eastern Beach
  • Geelong And Surrounds
  • Gold Coast
  • Goldfields
  • Great Ocean Road
  • Melbourne
  • My Backyard
  • Other
  • Otways
  • Port Phillip Bay
  • Shipwreck Coast
  • Surf Coast
  • Tasmania
  • The Property
  • Toolangi
  • Uncategorized
  • West Melbourne

Copyright © 2023 · Parallax Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in