Basically Rainbow Space Ships
Really beautiful looking jellyfish like animals that move around with little tiny hairs. Not only are they transparent but rainbow bands cover their bodies. They really remind me of a spaceship or submarine More info below.
First three videos show several species of jellies
This is a Sea Gooseberry Comb Jelly
Comb Jellies
These guys aren't jellyfish but they are
transparent, jelly-like invertebrates with bright bands around their body that
reflect the sun’s rays in a rainbow fashion. These bands come from tiny
hairs called combs which allow the jelly to swim and create those rainbow
colors. They live near the surface of both shallow and deep waters. They
are “voracious” feeders (meaning they eat several times more than their body
weight) and they eat planktonic organisms (like zooplankton), fish larvae,
oyster eggs, and other comb jellies. They eat and breathe by pumping water
through their body. Their main predators are sea turtles, other
jelly-eating animals, such as tuna, sunfish butterfish, and spiny dogfish.
Their maximum size is about 5 inches. Young comb jellies can reproduce 13
days after hatching.
Sea Gooseberry
Sea
gooseberries are also comb jellies with their cilia (tiny hairs) allowing the
jelly to swim. They aren't jellyfish but
like jellyfish they have no brain and have a large jelly center. They have a nervous
system but it is very decentralized like a jellyfish. They are also voracious
predators and eat other jellyfish. Unlike jellyfish they don’t use venom cells
to kill their prey (they can however use the venom cells if they kill a venomous
jellyfish for defense instead they use colloblasts cells that act as a glue to
trap their prey. They catch their prey and then real their tentacles in to their
pouches inside their body.
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