Pyura chilensis Molina, 1782
Edible sea squirt
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Family:  Pyuridae ()
Max. size:  5 cm TL (male/unsexed)
Environment:  sessile; marine; depth range 0 - 200 m
Distribution:  Southeast Pacific, Southwest Atlantic, and Antarctic Atlantic: from southern Peru to southern Chile and Argentina from Valdes Peninsula to Islas de los Estados and Falkland Islands. Subtropical and temperate.
Diagnosis:   
Biology:  Occurs from the low intertidal down to the subtidal along the Chilean and Peruvian coast (Ref. 381 and 1135). Isolated individuals or forming patches of matrices of barrel-like individuals with hard outer tunic cemented together on the substratum (Ref. 382); Solitary; a sessile, filter-feeder (Ref. 1135).
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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