Image of Pyura haustor (Stimpson 1864)

Description:

Warty sea squirt (tunicate), Pyura haustor - Rip-rap rocks, adjacent to floating fishing dock, Boat Channel, Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD), San Diego Bay, San Diego, California - Collected from the underside of a rock during low tide. - Epibionts, sediment, and debris removed (rub and plucked with forceps) from outer body (tunic) to exposed tunicate body for photography, tunicate placed in tray with bay water, - failed attempt to photo siphons to show interior red color of siphon tips, animal would not relax siphon tips - photo shows wide base for attachment (flat and pink area), over-all red-brown coloration, elongated separated siphons with atrial? siphon directed at right angle, warty surface, some epibionts and debris still on animal