Perissinotto and co-workers investigated the feeding dynamics of the pelagic tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum in the southern Indian Ocean. Colonies showed highest retention efficiency for particles >10 µm, and clearance rates were among the highest recorded in any zooplankton grazer (up to 35 l h^–1 per colony). Gut pigment destruction rates exceeded those previously measured in salps and appendicularians. Neutral lipid classes in P. atlanticum were very similar to those of both dinoflagellates and prymnesiophytes; zooids contained small amounts of lipids, and low percentages of triacylglycerols and free fatty acids, which suggests that they use high biomass turnover as an alternative strategy to energy storage.