Subject: APK0008n96

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• by motmot2x

  Beautiful. Plankton/fireflies/starry night

  Posted August 26, 2015 12:51 AM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  WOW!!

  Posted August 26, 2015 4:16 AM

• by elizabeth_s moderator

  NICE what is it? 😃

  Posted August 26, 2015 10:45 AM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Not sure! Looks like a mucous matter. I'm curious, whether a Larvacean house or a decaying organism or something else. Have to ask the scientists

  Posted August 26, 2015 1:47 PM

• by kirstenr

  I just got this image, and I didn't notice the tiny #larvacean on the right edge or what might be a larvacean on the top left edge the

  Posted August 28, 2015 11:01 PM

• by kirstenr

  first time I saw it on the Recents. I couldn't find the neighboring frame to verify it is a larvacean on top left edge.

  Posted August 28, 2015 11:01 PM

• by jo.irisson translator, scientist

  A discarded larvacean house of this size would probably be less clean. There are some colonies of radiolarians with symbiotic phytoplankton

  Posted September 5, 2015 4:26 PM

• by jo.irisson translator, scientist

  that look a bit like this (the phytoplankton would be the white dots) but this looks quite large and not regular enough for this.

  Posted September 5, 2015 4:27 PM

• by zsil

  Looks like radiolorians

  Posted October 21, 2015 3:34 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Well, I decided not to mark it.

  Posted November 1, 2015 6:36 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  I've just seen an awesome video by MBARI showing a #Pteropod producing net of sticky mucous to trap marine snow looking similar to this

  Posted November 11, 2015 8:20 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  object! (0:48)

  Posted November 11, 2015 8:21 PM