Who do you think responds with the correct ID first? Mary K at Maritime Gloucester or The New England Aquarium?
Click the photos for larger photos and check out that green evil alien living inside. The stuff of nightmares.




Landed @CaptJoeLobster just now. Anyone who can ID it?
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icky but very cool
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what the heck is this????????????
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A Vagina, duh.
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It is most likely a salp (a free floating tunicate). Not sure of the species yet.
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I’m going to go with Thetys vagina. That is the actual scientific name for the organism, not a joke. For more info see http://eol.org/pages/510608/overview.
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Fantastic Photos!!!
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We used to scrape these off the hull of our Whaler — they were beautiful and delicate and I wished we could return them to the water in some other form than bait.
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