Subject: APK0007fu8
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by motmot2x
#Sipho-two-cups? elongated #medusa?
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by yshish moderator, translator
I'm not sure but I'd say it is a #Salp (if not, then a Rocket-ship.). I'm confused by the structure. Doesn't look like what I'm used to see.
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by kirstenr
looks like the other ones the scientists have been calling salps, but with no Phronima inhabitant.
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by jo.irisson translator, scientist
I don't think it is a salp; it does not have the opaque blob I would expect and the pointy ends on the left don't look appropriate either.
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by jo.irisson translator, scientist
Could be a sipho but again the left part does not fit very well with this. I've asked for a bit of help.
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by kirstenr
Could it be the head of a larvacean ?
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by LombardFabien scientist
This is the bottom bell of a #Sipho-two-cups of the type Diphyes dispar, or more probably Abylopsis tetragona
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by kirstenr
Oh, that makes sense. Thank you.
Good call, motmot2x!Posted
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by motmot2x
Thanks Kirsten. I style my marine biology on the great one, George Costanza.
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by kirstenr
Ha, ha! I love Seinfeld.
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by yshish moderator, translator
@LombardFabien But we're used to classify these as the #Rocket-Ship_Siphos not as the Twocups! 😦
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by kirstenr
As I understand it, s/he's talking about viewing it from the bottom of the siphosome, not the triangle portion-but maybe I am the one who is
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by kirstenr
confused!
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by yshish moderator, translator
I think the posterior nectosome was meant by the bottom bell. Look what I mean: http://bit.ly/1Ce310t
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by kirstenr
So does that mean it's just part of a sipho floating around by itself?
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by jo.irisson translator, scientist
Indeed, those would be #rocket_ship in planktonportal-talk.
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by yshish moderator, translator
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