Colonial sea squirt

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Colonial sea squirt (Botrylloides leachii). Botrylloides leachii is a colonial organism, forming flat, gelatinous sheets. The colony is formed of individual zooids that each have their own inhalant siphon (round). One exhalent siphon is shared by the colony. Photographed off Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Indo-West Pacific.

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