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Living Rock: Pyura chilensis (Chile and Peru)

Pyura chilensis Notwithstanding appearances, this is not some sort of remorselessly cut up outsider stone living being or a tomato thunderegg. This is Pyura chilensis, an ocean animal that lives on the rough shore of Chile and Peru. Furthermore, if (like me, as of late) you've never observed one of these, you'll most likely be intrigued to realize that in Chile, they are angled industrially, and local people eat them crude or cooked with plate of mixed greens and rice in light of the fact that obviously they're tasty.  P. chilensis has a place with the Ascidiacea class of non-moving, sac-like marine invertebrate channel feeders that are also called ocean squirts. They have a place with the Tunicata subphylum, alleged in light of the fact that they wear thick "tunics" made of tunicin, which is a solid grid of particles that help the creature append itself to a hard surface on which it will complete its days. The internal parts of this tunic are fixed w...