What is a Salp?

Siphonophores in the Order Physonecta typically form long chains with an apical pneumatophore followed by a group of muscular swimming bells ( ...

Salp - Openwaterpedia

noun - A salp (plural salps) or salpa is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate. It moves by contracting, thus pumping water through its ...

Strange Gelatinous Blobs on the Beach? Those Would Be Salps

Salps are some of the most efficient filter-feeders in the ocean. They help maintain an ecological balance by controlling phytoplankton ...

The role of salps in marine ecosystem function - UNSW

Salps also consume phytoplankton and bacteria that are at the bottom of the food chain (Muller, 1983), allowing them to respond quickly to increases in primary ...

Sense of place: You may see salps on the beach | News

Walking along the shoreline you might come across a species of salp called Salpa fusiformis.

Mysterious Balls of Goo Are Rolling Onto American Beaches

Sometimes referred to as "jellyfish eggs," salps are the latest gelatinous animal to wash ashore along the U.S. East Coast. Photograph by Chris ...

Salps - a surprising jelly-like relative - RNZ

These small see-through gelatinous blobs which NIWA plankton expert Dr Moira Decima says are more closely related to us than they are to jellyfish.

Creature Feature: Salps - The Ethogram

Salps are filter feeders. They pulse muscles in their outer layer of tissue which draws water through their body.

Salps: Ocean Vacuums - California Academy of Sciences

Salps: Ocean Vacuums ... Smaller is better, at least where salps' food is concerned. Salps are a type of tunicate or sea squirt, small gelatinous ...

Salp is it a Jellyfish? | Auckland Scuba Dive

Salp is it a Jellyfish? ... A salp is a barrel shaped, jelly like tunicate that is common in equatorial, temperate, and cold seas. There are 48 ...

What is a salp?⁠ It looks like a jellyfish but it doesn't sting and it's not ...

Turns out the salp is an animal that is more similar to humans than jellyfish, as it has a complex digestive, circulatory, and nervous system.

Fish Inside Salps: How Living Jelly Tubes Protect Juveniles At Sea

The parasite effectively carves out the center of the salp, using its siphon system to tour the ocean picking up snacks as they go.

Antarctic Salps | Smithsonian Ocean

Salps are tube-shaped, soft, transparent animals that swim through the ocean, straining out plant food as they go.

Splatures #8: Salp Salps are small tunicates that may remind most ...

Splatures #8: Salp Salps are small tunicates that may remind most people of jellyfish, but they are actually not closely related at all.

The Small Jelly Creatures That Link Up And Swim in Corkscrews

Salps are small, transparent barrel-shaped jelly creatures. They are sometimes confused with jellyfish, but they are so much more complex.

Salps (Order Salpida) - iNaturalist

A salp (plural salps), salpa (plural salpae or salpas), is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate. It moves by contracting, thus pumping water through its ...

Jet-Propelled, Snake-like Salp Colonies Trace Huge Helices in the ...

Colonies of gelatinous sea animals swim through the ocean in giant corkscrew shapes using coordinated jet propulsion, an unusual kind of locomotion.

salp - NOAA Teacher at Sea Blog

The salp, clear and gelatinous, is as long as the width of the finger on which it rests. Two tiny antennae extend from one end, toward the ring finger.

An Ode to Salps: Our Gelatinous Marine Cousins - YouTube

Thanks to MBARI and Monterey Bay Aquarium for partnering with us on this episode of SciShow. All of the amazing deep-sea video you are about ...

Glowing Strands of Strangeness - Tides and Trails

This gelatinous animal I found on the beach represents one part of a strange lifecycle that involves both solitary salps and salp aggregations.