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string jelly

Apolemia uvaria

Classification

Apolemia uvaria, commonly known as string jellyfish, or barbed wire jellyfish, is a colonial siphonophore. As with all siphonophores, string jellyfish look and function much like a single organism, but each "individual" Apolemia uvaria is in fact a colony of specialised minute organisms (zooids), permanently attached to each other and physiologically connected to the extent that they cannot survive alone. String jellyfish colonies may reach 3 m (9.

Distribution

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