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• by motmot2x

  #Sipho-two-cups? elongated #medusa?

  Posted June 16, 2015 7:33 PM

• 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.

  Posted June 16, 2015 8:24 PM

• by kirstenr

  looks like the other ones the scientists have been calling salps, but with no Phronima inhabitant.

  Posted June 16, 2015 8:56 PM

• 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.

  Posted June 16, 2015 9:36 PM

• 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.

  Posted June 16, 2015 9:37 PM

• by kirstenr

  Could it be the head of a larvacean ?

  Posted June 16, 2015 10:01 PM

• by LombardFabien scientist

  This is the bottom bell of a #Sipho-two-cups of the type Diphyes dispar, or more probably Abylopsis tetragona

  Posted June 17, 2015 7:36 AM

• by kirstenr

  Oh, that makes sense. Thank you.
  Good call, motmot2x!

  Posted June 17, 2015 1:25 PM

• by motmot2x

  Thanks Kirsten. I style my marine biology on the great one, George Costanza.

  Posted June 17, 2015 2:56 PM

• by kirstenr

  Ha, ha! I love Seinfeld.

  Posted June 17, 2015 3:06 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  @LombardFabien But we're used to classify these as the #Rocket-Ship_Siphos not as the Twocups! 😦

  Posted June 17, 2015 3:14 PM

• 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

  Posted June 17, 2015 3:36 PM

• by kirstenr

  confused!

  Posted June 17, 2015 3:37 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  I think the posterior nectosome was meant by the bottom bell. Look what I mean: http://bit.ly/1Ce310t

  Posted June 17, 2015 7:53 PM

• by kirstenr

  So does that mean it's just part of a sipho floating around by itself?

  Posted June 17, 2015 10:24 PM

• by jo.irisson translator, scientist

  Indeed, those would be #rocket_ship in planktonportal-talk.

  Posted June 20, 2015 11:01 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  #rectangular

  Posted August 29, 2015 8:58 AM