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Rosacea tentacles, siphonophore - colonial jelly.

Rosacea tentacles, siphonophore - colonial jelly.
Rosacea tentacles, siphonophore - colonial jelly.
Rosacea tentacles, siphonophore - colonial jelly.
Rosacea tentacles, siphonophore - colonial jelly.
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Madin, Laurence
Rosacea tentacles, siphonophore - colonial jelly.
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04/21/2006
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Image of The Day caption:
Siphonophores, relatives of jellyfish made of compound units, drift in the endless space of the open ocean. Their many tentacles, studded with batteries of stinging cells, form a beaded curtain of deadly fishing lines to catch prey. Researchers found this foot-long siphonophore (Rosacea) 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
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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