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Alien egg sacks ?
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What the heck are these alien looking egg sacks...?:confused:
These 4 tubes with a sort of egg like sphere in each one were floating about as I was Rockfishing yesterday...can anyone identify them ? They were about a foot long and almost seemed to be kind of swimming along... |
Probably a species of Salp
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Second that opinion. Google Salp images, I couldn't get it to paste into this reply.
Usually they are more than two, they can form long chains and vary in size from grapes to the size of you palm. |
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Does look like some kind of Salp.....Attachment 28049
https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature...ological-role/ |
porpoise condoms
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I've been seeing salps, moon jellyfish and purple-striped jellyfish recently at La Jolla.
Hopefully a sign of a flourishing ecosystem! |
Thanks Guys...
A salp (plural salps) or salpa (plural salpae or salpas[1]) is a barrel-shaped, planktic tunicate. It moves by contracting, thereby pumping water through its gelatinous body, one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom.[2] The salp strains the pumped water through its internal feeding filters, feeding on phytoplankton.
:cheers1: Lots of jelly fish around here too... |
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food source, salps provide little nutrition. eat the same |
Scientists speculate that global warming may favor salps over krill.
I wonder if the salps killed the penguins at La Jolla? I haven’t seen one there, for at least 15 years |
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