Have fun identifying this animal in the opening footage.
Bizarre jelly video
Have fun identifying this animal in the opening footage.
It looks like a Salp to me! I have seen and videoed them a few times! They come in many different forms!
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Cestum Veneris
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Ya, Venus Girdle or Comb Jelly, not sure if it qualifies as a salp? Good Job!
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If you layered several up into a pile one on top of the other, would it be a Mons Veneris?
A Salp is
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Urochordata
Class: Thaliacea
Order: Salpida
Family: Salpidae
Whilst a Comb Jelly is:
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Salps and Comb Jellys are about as closely related as people and spiders. So in answer to your question, no ... it does not qualify as a salp.
All these animals are amazing, I have never seen anything other than a ctenophore, so I guess I would have mistakenly wondered if a salp was that same animal as in the video, so thanks for the taxonomy lesson Thal!
On that note, I have seen photos of salps, and they look like a grouping of individual duplicate animals. Do they congregate from individual animals or does a solitary animal replicate themselves into a chain?
I can't really see from the video if the veneris is a grouping or an individual animal. So what is the difference between a salp and a veneris? And saying: "The spelling" doesn't count!
Hey *trying to be a part of the conversation* I took a picture of a comb jelly!It was the biggest one I ever saw, probably 7 or 8 inches . . .
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So what is the difference between a salp and a veneris? And saying: "The spelling" doesn't count!
Pelagic Tunicates (salps are part of this group)
Ctenophores (Also know as Comb Jellies, includes Cestum verneris)
Note: The genus (e.g. Cestum) is capitalized and after the first use in a document is often abbreviated with just the first letter "C." The species name is always lower case (e.g. verneris). When the genus is known, and the exact species is not, this is indicated by the use of "sp." in place of the unknown species name, (e.g., Cestum sp.) End of today's taxonomy lesson.
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