Sentences with word «siphonophore»

So Steven Haddock, a biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, and colleagues were perplexed to find glowing red spots on the tentacles of siphonophores pulled from waters as deep as 2300 meters off the coast of Monterey, California.

Audio production and animations are by Sophia, who normally studies siphonophores in the Dunn lab.

Younger siphonophore tentacles sport blue, not red, spots.

A 30 - foot - long siphonophore — which looks like a colony of jellyfish — was putting out so much light that Widder could read the dials and gauges inside her suit without her flashlight.

For the Erenna siphonophore — a deep - sea relative of the jellyfish — red means go.

Take the case of the deep - sea siphonophore, which makes red light to trap its prey.

We joined Steve Haddock's lab to collect siphonophores with blue water SCUBA diving and the remotely operated underwater vehicle Doc Ricketts.

Christian Sardet, Hippopodius hippopus siphonophore, Bay of Villefranche - sur - Mer, France, 2011, 25 mm.

Siphonophores are jellyfish linked together to form what look like weaponized space platforms, while among the discrete medusae, moon jellies can appear both vegetal and artificial — purple pansies trapped under gauzy, throbbing petticoats.

Despite its singular appearance, the man - of - war isn't a jellyfish; rather, it's a siphonophore, which is a colony of organisms that are dependent on each other for survival.

Although bioluminescence is primarily used for defense, siphonophores may have turned this tool around to capture prey.

Related sites Video of a siphonophore in action More about Siphonophores Bioluminescence: How does it work?

Like all siphonophores, this unnamed species is what scientists call a «superorganism»: an animal that grows by budding off highly specialized structures, known as zooids.

But a siphonophore colony is made up of many parts that are each equivalent to free living organisms such as sea anemones and «true» jellyfish.

A siphonophore colony is a functional individual.

Local name «agua mala», bad water: The most distinctive feature of this colonial «jellyfish» (siphonophore) is a bright blue float up to 5» long (pneumatophore) that catches the wind and moves the colony across the water.

A whopping 97 to 99.7 percent of the cnidarians (jellyfish and siphonophores) have the ability to glow; meanwhile half of the fishes and cephalopods produce their own light.

According to National Geographic, it is a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of individual organisms.