Page 52 - Caribbean Reef Life Demo

SIPHONOPHORES : INVERTEBRATES
ROBUST AGALMA SIPHONOPHORE (Agalma okenii) bell < 10 cm / 4 in
Main body as a cluster of swimming zooids. Thin feeding tentacles with red tentilla can reach lengths of 2 m / 6 ft.
DELICATE AGALMA SIPHONOPHORE (Agalma elegans) bell < 10 cm / 4 in Transparent body with short tentacles up to 30 cm / 1 ft. mall indi iduals ma sho a reenish ioluminescence.
ROSACEA SIPHONOPHORE (Rosacea plicata) bell < 3 cm / 1.25 in Transparent twin-lobed body. Long trailing tentacles with small pinkish tentilla and larger feeding zooids.
PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR (Physalia physalis) oat cm in
ale ur le as lled oat ith inched ed e at the to . Purple trailing tentacles can reach up to 50 m / 160 ft.
FLOATING SIPHONOPHORES (Rhizophysa spp.) < 5 cm / 2 in
small u le of air is attached a o e the main od . Tentacles with bright pink tentilla can reach 10 m / 30 ft.
BARBED WIRE SIPHONOPHORE (Apolemia sp.) bell < 10 cm / 4 in
Long ragged collection of retractable whitish zooids from a trans arent o al od . an reach u to m ft.
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