Lukas Spieker

Solitary zooid of a salp, a pelagic tunicate photographed in the Atlantic ocean in El Hierro, Canary Islands. Salps are colonial animals that are pumping water through their translucent body to move by jet propulsion and to feed on phytoplancton.
Solitary zooid of a salp, a pelagic tunicate photographed in the Atlantic ocean in El Hierro, Canary Islands. Salps are colonial animals that are pumping water through their translucent body to move by jet propulsion and to feed on phytoplancton.