High-definition underwater-video mapping of Buzzards Bay, MA, photographed a pyrosome tunicate. Positive identification to the species level was not possible because to do so requires a live, undamaged specimen. However, the most probable species is Pyrosoma atlanticum, a common species in temperate waters worldwide, which has not been documented in Buzzards Bay until now.
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1 August 2018
Underwater Video Mapping of Benthic Habitats in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Records the Pelagic Colonial Pyrosome Tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum
Kristin L. Osborne,
William A. Hubbard
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Northeastern Naturalist
Vol. 25 • No. 3
September 2018
Vol. 25 • No. 3
September 2018