Comb Jelly
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I find it rather disturbing that so many people think that the prismatic rainbow effects of these organisms are bioluminescence. Although some supposedly glow, it is a pale blue, and has nothing to do with the cilia bands which create the rainbows on the organism.
They also look like funny biplanes.
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@dunespeak Both ctenophores and hydrozoan/scyphozoan jellies are in the same phylum (Cnidaria), but are placed in different classes.
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@soldier2730 Actually, I don't think they're even in the same class as the jellyfish... Or rather Phylum. lol... Comb Jellies are from the Ctenophore phylum while Jellyfish are from the Cnidaria Phylum.
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I did know what a comb jelly is it just only some kind of a jellyfish lol
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I caught alot at the beach oone time near Crab Island
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Them is biophospholuminescent, them is!
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Delicate, beautifull but predatory; a true monster to anything smaller and slower
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WHAT IS THIS ? REAL , FAKE ?
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I want one
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actually....they do have their own biolumiescence. its a reaction called Chemiluminnescence and they get it through Coelenterazine. scientists do not know where they get their coelenterazine from but they are pretty sure they get it from their diet. In addition, Ctenephores bioluminesce when a Ca2+ ion binds on to them. This causes their reaction and then to bioluminesce. Lastly, they are not propellers. they are called LOBES. not propellers. Propellers are on planes not comb jellies.
perpi1257 3 years ago 4