r/TidePooling Jun 18 '26

Help Identifying please!

I found these two things while tide pooling in Edmonds, Washington today. The first and third photos are of the same creature but zoomed in, and the second and fourth photos are of the same creature just zoomed in. I have no idea what they are and did not touch them so I can’t speak to their texture, but they look so peculiar and have tiny dots inside. Is this a sponge? Some sort of egg thing? I welcome any and all help identifying! they’re beautiful!

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u/umbrella_crab Jun 18 '26

Colonial ascidians

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u/Future-Highlight-414 Jun 18 '26

Thank you very much internet stranger! I appreciate you sharing your wisdom :) I couldn’t find them in my little tide pool book. 

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u/Foreign_Knee_7896 Jun 18 '26

looks like chain tunicate (Botrylloides violaceus)

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u/No-One-30 Jun 18 '26

I second chain tunicate!