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This Pyrosome (the name means "fire body") is a cylindrical colony.

This Pyrosome (the name means "fire body") is a cylindrical colony.
This Pyrosome (the name means "fire body") is a cylindrical colony.
This Pyrosome (the name means "fire body") is a cylindrical colony.
This Pyrosome (the name means "fire body") is a cylindrical colony.
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Madin, Laurence P.
This Pyrosome (the name means "fire body") is a cylindrical colony.
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10/07/2007
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Collected from the Celebes Sea in September 2007.
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Looking like a collection of bubbles, this pyrosome (the name means ?fire body?) is a cylindrical colony, 7 centimeters (2.75 inch) long, made up of individual animals (the ?bubbles?.) Each tiny individual animal pumps water through its body, filtering out food and propelling the brightly luminescent colony forward. Researchers found this pyrosome in the Sargasso Sea, on a 2006 cruise on the NOAA ship R/V Ron Brown to catalogue planktonic animals and sequence their DNA?part of the Census of Marine Zooplankton project.
Photo by Larry Madin
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