Batman of the Deep
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Uploaded by neptunecanada on Oct 28, 2011
13 September 2011: During a deep-sea (2324m) cable route survey we encountered Batman gliding over a field of pillow lava!
Holy Toledo, what was that strange creature?!
Marine biologist Bill Austin has suggested it is likely a comb jelly (ctenophore). George Matsumoto, a ctenophore (comb jelly) expert at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Research instutute identified it as a lobate ctenophoreof the Lampocteis genus.
Comb jellies are jellyfish-like creatures, which swim using groups or rows of cilia. Most comb jellies have cilia strips, running along the lengths of their outer bodies.
All comb jellies are predators. Unique among all animals, comb jellies hunt by squirting glue from specially adapted 'colloblast' cells onto their prey. Comb jellies feed on microscopic larvae, copepods, amphipods and even krill.
There are about 150 known species, ranging in size from several millimetres to 1.5m.
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Rhinogradentian 1 month ago
My respondents indicate this is a lobate ctenophore...
asterias 4 months ago
Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your marine biology.
(apologies to Bill Shakespeare)
Jellyfish seems like a good answer, or perhaps sea jelly.
If I were Mr. Scott (Star Trek), I would consider it closely, then announce, "It's black."
AugRode 4 months ago
Herman Cain?
Cammie010 4 months ago
looks like a jelly-fish?
sunrider7 4 months ago