Ocean Safari Blog

Have you seen a field of pyrosomes while diving? We did on our dive at Catalina Island. Pyrosomes are colonial organisms, which means each one we see as one organism is actually made up of millions of smaller organisms. They are bioluminescent at night and in the day time have iridescent pink coloration. They float freely through the water column filtering microscopic plant cells out of the water to feed themselves.

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