If you are one of those people who is afraid of jellyfish, then this specimen may terrify you. Is called Salpa Fusiformis, a sea creature that looks like a jellyfish. However, it is not dangerous and it also benefits the marine environment. It is also nicknamed “cleaner of the sea”. The creature metabolizes tons of carbon dioxide in the water and then collects them on the bottom in the hope that their destination is the atmosphere. It is a invertebrates which mainly feeds on phytoplankton and bacteria that act as a filter for the water. In short, an air purifier for the blue planet.
Its distribution is in the Atlantic Ocean and at the equator. However, climate change has also brought it Mediterranean, in Italy. It seems to have become part of our ecosystem with the Salpa Maxima. Its habitat is the open sea, it lives at a depth of 800 meters. During the night it returns to the surface by being carried ashore by the current. When swimmers find it in the sand, they think it’s a jellyfish.
On the Calabrian coasts, especially in the warm waters of the Ionian Sea, these organisms that seem to be made of transparent plastic are spreading this summer. They are not jellyfish or fish. It’s a tunicate called Salpa Fusiformis. They are not stinging or dangerous, they form colonies and are hermaphrodites. They feed on phytoplankton and their colonies are able to capture and accumulate 4000 Tn CO2 in the sea every day, helping to clean up the environment. Don’t hurt him. They are harmless.
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Source: Lega Nerd
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