| Image ID: | 29458 |
| Common Name: | Oceanic salp |
| Scientific Name: | Salpa? |
| Description: | A large 10 cm-long salp caught near the surface in the open ocean west of Central America. A close-up of the same animal showing the reproductive cycle of this species is also available on this website. |
| Location: | Tropical Pacific, open ocean, epipelagic |
| Keywords: | Oceanic salp, Salpa, epipelagic, Chordata, Urochordata, Thaliacea, Salpida, Salpidae, transpatent, blue, jelly, plankton |
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