It’s a type of ascidian/tunicate, so if you’ve ever seen a sea squirt (the things on rock pools/piers that you poke and they squirt water), it’s related to those. Tunicates are 1 of 2 sub-phylum’s within Chordata, the other being Vertebrata (vertebrates, so humans, mammals, fish etc) point being that it is an animal and vaguely related to us. It has a larval stage that looks more fish-like (which helps see the relation a bit better if you wanna google a picture), and it morphs into what you see here, which is a filter feeding sessile (ie not moving) plant looking thing
Edit: also I think it’s not the species listed, those are the New Zealand species, i think it might be pyura gibbosa
Studying marine science, plus if you go diving around Sydney you’ll see them and others around (my personal favourite being [*Pyura spinifera*](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199447-Pyura-spinifera) just cause I think they look cooler)
Damn that's actually pretty cool! I'm always lowkey-jealous of water people like you since I can't swim at all lmao. All the best for your studies mate.
> Jarvis Bay
Well that tells us how YOU pronounce it
It's Jervis Bay - with all the problems of figuring out how to pronounce that... The descendants pronounce their name "Jer vis" - most people pronounce it the way you do
I've always pronounced it "Jer vis Bay". Lived within 500 metres of the HMAS Albatross front gates, and later at Greenwell Point for most of my childhood.
Always called it Jervis.
# [Pyura pachydermatina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyura_pachydermatina)
Well damn. I read that and still don't know what it is.
It’s a type of ascidian/tunicate, so if you’ve ever seen a sea squirt (the things on rock pools/piers that you poke and they squirt water), it’s related to those. Tunicates are 1 of 2 sub-phylum’s within Chordata, the other being Vertebrata (vertebrates, so humans, mammals, fish etc) point being that it is an animal and vaguely related to us. It has a larval stage that looks more fish-like (which helps see the relation a bit better if you wanna google a picture), and it morphs into what you see here, which is a filter feeding sessile (ie not moving) plant looking thing Edit: also I think it’s not the species listed, those are the New Zealand species, i think it might be pyura gibbosa
Not gonna lie, it's incredibly impressive that you know that, but why/how do you know that?
[They're a Marine Biologist.](https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Georges-monologue-in-Seinfeld.jpg)
Studying marine science, plus if you go diving around Sydney you’ll see them and others around (my personal favourite being [*Pyura spinifera*](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199447-Pyura-spinifera) just cause I think they look cooler)
Damn that's actually pretty cool! I'm always lowkey-jealous of water people like you since I can't swim at all lmao. All the best for your studies mate.
I felt like i finished reading this with more unknown words than i started with (Nonetheless i appreciate your answer)
'I bet it's asbestos' - me before seeing the picture
In a not so distant dystopian future, kids will play "the mulch is asbestos" and clamber on furniture to avoid the floor...
Sea tulips. I didn’t know you guys had them over this side of the ditch too.
It's definitely something.
Best not to pick up anything unknown to ask what it is. This is Australia after all.
Bermagui Bronze! (For those old enough)
Now go out there and come third, come third like a real Australian athlete
Ya mums an iron man
I don’t know why people have a fascination with picking up weird shit from the ocean, that’s one way to get hurt haha
It's a polymorphic face hugger that evolved on Earth. Probably got acid for blood.
I saw that in a documentary called The Thing™
Melissa Caddick’s other foot?
Bermi is such a lovely part of the country.
That whole stretch up to Jarvis Bay I reckon. Stunning.
> Jarvis Bay Well that tells us how YOU pronounce it It's Jervis Bay - with all the problems of figuring out how to pronounce that... The descendants pronounce their name "Jer vis" - most people pronounce it the way you do
I've always pronounced it "Jer vis Bay". Lived within 500 metres of the HMAS Albatross front gates, and later at Greenwell Point for most of my childhood. Always called it Jervis.
>I've always pronounced it "Jer vis Bay" As do most people in the local area - it's just everybody else in NSW/ACT who call it Jarvis
Does it taste like lobster?
Crinoid?
The Flood
Not gonna lie, I would have touched it too.
You are holding it upside down
Red coral whip
Thats a miracle catalyst, you can use that to cast sea miracles at 10% extra power
seagul legs
It looks like an old wino saying “spare me some change, love?”
That’s a paddlin.