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Giant Salp on the surface
Video by Vince Kerr
Taken at Nursery Cove at the Poor Knights Islands. An oceanic dirfter who at occasionally appear at the Poor Knights Islands. This is a colonial primitive invertebrate specie very small it size that form huge long tubes sometimes more than 10m long. They can actually propel themselves along by injecting water in to their tube structure and forcing it out one end.
Added: 07/14/2007 Tags: Invertebrates | Salp | Marine Reserves | Poor Knights Islands
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