Cactus Squirt (Boltenia echinata)

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Cactus Squirt (Boltenia echinata)

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Common name: cactus sea squirt

Scientific name: Boltenia echinata

Locations: undersides of large rocks and within kelp holdfasts in high current areas

Seasonality: available year round

Colors: peachy - red with fuzzy white spikes

Size: 1/4" - 1/2"

Collected: by hand, knife to detach them from rocks

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The cactus squirt is toward the bottom left. It's a reddish color. It's fastened right onto another tunicate species, white crust. — The cactus squirt is toward the bottom left. It's a reddish color. It's fastened right onto another tunicate species, white crust.

Tidepool Tim says, "If we ever have a Tidepool Tim's sea creature cartoon, this guy will be the star of the show for certain. It may be a benthic bore - slowly filter feeding its life away - but they are fuzzy and cute. These sea squirts are so covered in spines or fuzz that for years, I hardly ever took notice of them as I was collecting. Finally one day my hand slipped and I happened to hit one - out squirted the most delicate little charge of water - aha! That's a sea squirt there. Cactus squirts are not very common in our area, but in some places they are easy to find.”