Unknown underwater creation Bashny.Net

Researchers during underwater expedition met with a completely unknown creature that carried to Siphonophora very strange and little-studied group of animals.
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2. Scuba devices detected unfamiliar creature belongs expedition Nautilus Live, whose mission was to explore the seabed in the interval from 900 to 1600 meters in the Gulf of Mexico to assess the damage caused by the accident at the oil platform Deepwater Horizon, which occurred April 20, 2010 . In the same year, an underwater remotely operated vehicle (PTA / Engl. ROV) Hercules captured the unknown animal.



3. Animal purple, long and complex shape, without head or limbs consist of two parts: the rod (stolons) and rear filamentary structure. Biologist explains that the animal belongs to a subclass siphonophores cnidarians like jellyfish, sea anemones and corals. They are of two kinds: one moving, like a jellyfish, while others are fixed at a certain place as polyps.



4. Feature Siphonophora that it actually consists of two types of colonies animals cnidarians, which coexist in perfect symbiosis. Each of them performs its tasks. Nektofory care about the movement. Gastrozooids forage through their stinging cells, distributed on the thin filaments (filaments). Finally, gonozoïdes bear reproductive function.

All these creatures born from the same individual and thus have an identical genome. None of them can not leave the colony, not dying.

Siphonophora refers to planktonic organisms that are not able to fight over, so move with it.