Phil Garner, Southern California Marine Life, USA
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Apolemia uvaria (Lesueur, 1815)
The pearl necklace jellyfish (Apolemia uvaria) belongs to the free-swimming Siphonophorae, which are also known as hydrozoans.
It consists of many different specialized polyps and medusae, e.g. buoyant pneumatophores, nectophores, dactylozoids with trapping threads, gonozoids, trophozoids and phyllozoids.
One can understand this way of living together as if each individual zooid works like its own organ of a whole organism, a fantastic living community that can grow up to a total length of 20 meters.
The state jellyfish itself belongs to the zooplankton, feeds on plankton and is often found at depths of around 100 meters.
Synonyms:
Agalma punctata Vogt, 1854
Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815
The pearl necklace jellyfish (Apolemia uvaria) belongs to the free-swimming Siphonophorae, which are also known as hydrozoans.
It consists of many different specialized polyps and medusae, e.g. buoyant pneumatophores, nectophores, dactylozoids with trapping threads, gonozoids, trophozoids and phyllozoids.
One can understand this way of living together as if each individual zooid works like its own organ of a whole organism, a fantastic living community that can grow up to a total length of 20 meters.
The state jellyfish itself belongs to the zooplankton, feeds on plankton and is often found at depths of around 100 meters.
Synonyms:
Agalma punctata Vogt, 1854
Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815
