The Many Types And Variety Of Jellyfish
The population of most seas and oceans consist mainly of jellyfish. Jellyfishes are truly remarkable creatures which possess amazing beauty and attractiveness. However a lot of those jellyfishes are threat to the health of people because they can sting and inject toxins inside your organism. But not all of the stings caused by jellyfishes possess a mortal threat and different jellyfishes inflict different pain with their stings. The stings can cause severe pain or even death due to the venom. Another term used for jellyfishes is a “medusa”, but it is used for the last cycles of their life-time.
Although there are many beautiful sea creatures we won’t be exaggerating if we say that the jellyfish is one of the most attractive water inhabitants. Jellyfishes not only have amazing abstract forms and body outlines, but they can also be colored in different hues. The color of the jellyfish depends on the chemicals which its body contains. However the chemicals that determine the main color of the jellyfish are the fluorescent chemicals. The fluorescent renders the jellyfish able to be colored and depending on the situation change its darkness or lightness. This is a self-protection method for jellyfishes that allows them to scare away threats. However the jellyfish may also use its colors to attract other jellyfishes for mating.
The Tiburonia granrojo is one fairly big sized jellyfish which has a vivid red color and looks quite different from the other kinds of jellyfish who have a clear and delicate body types. Those jellyfishes use from 4 to 7 arms to capture and eat their prey, but those tentacles are rather short if we compare them to those of other medusas. They live from six hundred to one thousand and five hundred meters below sea surface and they have been mainly found in the Pacific. The Tiburonia granojo is a very rare jellyfish and only twenty three specimens of its kind of have been found to date.
The Purple striped jellyfish is another interesting specimen of the jellyfish class, although it can be seen only on the Californian coastline. As you can tell by the name it is colored in dark purple and has stripes on its body. However the Purple striped jellyfish doesn’t have those stripes all the time, in truth they get those stripes when they get old and in the beginning of their life journey they aren’t purple, but light pink.
And these are only two of the amazing species of jellyfish that can be seen in seas and oceans. However if you aren’t an adventure man you can always go to the city aquarium and witness the amazing beauty and glory of the jellyfish kind. Medusas are the most often seen creature in the oceans and this is because of the fact that they continue multiplying each day of their lifetime.
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