Salpa sp.; Salp, Aggregate Phase

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Salpa sp.; Salp, Aggregate Phase

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Salpa sp.
Salp, Aggregate Phase

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0402 (2005-03-15)

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date of photo Jul 1982

latitude 36.54333 longitude -121.95361 max error distance 2543 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Outer Carmel Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Salpidae

order Salpida

class Thaliacea

habitat Oceanic

notes This is the cloned, sexual phase of a pelagic tunicate. The individuals, each a sequential hermaphrodite, lie in a double chain oriented back to back. Eventually the chain will break apart and each individual will sexually produce an asexual solitary salp. Inconceivably large numbers of aggregate salps can cover hundreds of square miles of ocean.

camera Nikonos

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Salp, Aggregate Phase (photographer)

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