very small fish sometimes hide inside sea salps for protection :) sea salps only eat the teeniest plankton ever and are incapable of harming the fish!
September 11, 2026 at 2:09 PM
very small fish sometimes hide inside sea salps for protection :) sea salps only eat the teeniest plankton ever and are incapable of harming the fish!
A Tunicate #Salp’s Last Supper. A swimming smorgasbord wrapped in glassy flesh #photography #UnderwaterPhotography
Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...
Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A Tunicate #Salp’s Last Supper. A swimming smorgasbord wrapped in glassy flesh #photography #UnderwaterPhotography
Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...
Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...
some salps are oozoids
September 25, 2026 at 8:32 PM
some salps are oozoids
May 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Sea squirts & squid!
ROV pilots filmed these salps and spectacular squid during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition with @oceancensus.bsky.social in early 2025. Salps, also known as sea squirts, are ubiquitous throughout the Ocean, and abundant in the Southern Ocean.
ROV pilots filmed these salps and spectacular squid during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition with @oceancensus.bsky.social in early 2025. Salps, also known as sea squirts, are ubiquitous throughout the Ocean, and abundant in the Southern Ocean.
January 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Sea squirts & squid!
ROV pilots filmed these salps and spectacular squid during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition with @oceancensus.bsky.social in early 2025. Salps, also known as sea squirts, are ubiquitous throughout the Ocean, and abundant in the Southern Ocean.
ROV pilots filmed these salps and spectacular squid during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition with @oceancensus.bsky.social in early 2025. Salps, also known as sea squirts, are ubiquitous throughout the Ocean, and abundant in the Southern Ocean.
We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 AM
We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
November 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
The internet doesn't know what to make of these: Salps! #LetsChangeThat
March 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM
The internet doesn't know what to make of these: Salps! #LetsChangeThat
Salps, while not at all uncommon, are one of the most fascinating planktonic organisms seen while I shoot for my Aliens Collection.
#salp #salps #plankton #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #ocean #scubadiving
#salp #salps #plankton #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #ocean #scubadiving
June 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Salps, while not at all uncommon, are one of the most fascinating planktonic organisms seen while I shoot for my Aliens Collection.
#salp #salps #plankton #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #ocean #scubadiving
#salp #salps #plankton #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #ocean #scubadiving
Do you know about gelatinous salps? No? Trust us, you probably want to:
www.biographic.com/pelagic-pack...
www.biographic.com/pelagic-pack...
Pelagic Pack Animals - bioGraphic
Gelatinous salps shuttle tiny creatures and excess carbon into the deep.
www.biographic.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Do you know about gelatinous salps? No? Trust us, you probably want to:
www.biographic.com/pelagic-pack...
www.biographic.com/pelagic-pack...
A pea-sized #Argonaut #octopus hitches a ride on a chain of cloned #salps, as they drift through the open #ocean together.
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#papernautilus #nautilus #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #comensalism #symbiosis
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#papernautilus #nautilus #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #comensalism #symbiosis
May 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A pea-sized #Argonaut #octopus hitches a ride on a chain of cloned #salps, as they drift through the open #ocean together.
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#papernautilus #nautilus #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #comensalism #symbiosis
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#papernautilus #nautilus #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #comensalism #symbiosis
That their dense, carbon rich poos sink to the ocean floor in literal tons. Tethys vagina, and other salps like it, maybe one of Earth's secret weapons in the battle against climate change...
April 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
That their dense, carbon rich poos sink to the ocean floor in literal tons. Tethys vagina, and other salps like it, maybe one of Earth's secret weapons in the battle against climate change...
🔔🎄🌊 Silver bells! silver bells. It’s Christmas time in the deep sea! 🎶
This bell-shaped cluster is made up of gelatinous organisms called salps.
📲 Learn more about the gifts that salps and other ocean animals give our planet every day: twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-otz/climate
This bell-shaped cluster is made up of gelatinous organisms called salps.
📲 Learn more about the gifts that salps and other ocean animals give our planet every day: twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-otz/climate
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🔔🎄🌊 Silver bells! silver bells. It’s Christmas time in the deep sea! 🎶
This bell-shaped cluster is made up of gelatinous organisms called salps.
📲 Learn more about the gifts that salps and other ocean animals give our planet every day: twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-otz/climate
This bell-shaped cluster is made up of gelatinous organisms called salps.
📲 Learn more about the gifts that salps and other ocean animals give our planet every day: twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-otz/climate
Not something you see every day, a purple wave in Point Reyes. “Purple waves are caused by a bloom of juvenile salps, which are gelatinous creatures related to fish. These salps can create a striking purple appearance in the water when they wash ashore in large numbers.”
May 4, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Not something you see every day, a purple wave in Point Reyes. “Purple waves are caused by a bloom of juvenile salps, which are gelatinous creatures related to fish. These salps can create a striking purple appearance in the water when they wash ashore in large numbers.”
salps like Tethys vagina can reproduce at berserker speed, filling a once-empty bay with their million bodies in a matter of weeks. In doing so, animals like Thetys vagina eat so much, and POOP SO MUCH...
[image = wiki]
[image = wiki]
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
salps like Tethys vagina can reproduce at berserker speed, filling a once-empty bay with their million bodies in a matter of weeks. In doing so, animals like Thetys vagina eat so much, and POOP SO MUCH...
[image = wiki]
[image = wiki]
May 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Sea salps are one of the most interesting-looking creatures in the ocean. Despite being translucent like jellyfish, they are tunicates, a group of marine invertebrate animals. Actually, salps are more closely related to humans than to jellyfish!"
The Alien-Looking Sea Creature That Accidentally Cleans the Ocean
Lurking in oceans from the tropics to the Arctic, a tiny transparent creature with barrel-shaped body and visible orange organs performs a job that keeps the entire ocean ecosystem running, and almost...
www.yahoo.com
August 10, 2026 at 12:11 PM
"Sea salps are one of the most interesting-looking creatures in the ocean. Despite being translucent like jellyfish, they are tunicates, a group of marine invertebrate animals. Actually, salps are more closely related to humans than to jellyfish!"
Salps are among the most numerous of marine invertebrates, outnumbering even krill in some areas.
Although they resemble jellyfish, they're TUNICATES who grow *notochords* resembling your spine as larvae.
They can have explosive growth: increasing body length by 10% PER HOUR.
(📷: Norwegian IMR)
Although they resemble jellyfish, they're TUNICATES who grow *notochords* resembling your spine as larvae.
They can have explosive growth: increasing body length by 10% PER HOUR.
(📷: Norwegian IMR)
August 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Salps are among the most numerous of marine invertebrates, outnumbering even krill in some areas.
Although they resemble jellyfish, they're TUNICATES who grow *notochords* resembling your spine as larvae.
They can have explosive growth: increasing body length by 10% PER HOUR.
(📷: Norwegian IMR)
Although they resemble jellyfish, they're TUNICATES who grow *notochords* resembling your spine as larvae.
They can have explosive growth: increasing body length by 10% PER HOUR.
(📷: Norwegian IMR)
John Green did a nice short segment on them for SciShow (@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social), emphasizing the evolutionary proximity to vertebrates & their role in the carbon cycle.
Video here:
Video here:
An Ode to Salps: Our Gelatinous Marine Cousins
YouTube video by SciShow
www.youtube.com
August 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
John Green did a nice short segment on them for SciShow (@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social), emphasizing the evolutionary proximity to vertebrates & their role in the carbon cycle.
Video here:
Video here:
They're also an ecosystem unto themselves, like this Phronima parasitoid amphipod that hollows out salps to be home & nursery for their eggs.
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)
August 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
They're also an ecosystem unto themselves, like this Phronima parasitoid amphipod that hollows out salps to be home & nursery for their eggs.
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)
SALPS TIME
I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina...
[a thread 🧵]
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[a thread 🧵]
📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf
🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊
April 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
SALPS TIME
But yeah they're based on sea salps
Like, those scary pelagic pyrosome salps that just kinda free-float in the water
So for right now Sal is just kinda short for
Salp.
Until I figure out some fancy fantasy portmanteau
Like, those scary pelagic pyrosome salps that just kinda free-float in the water
So for right now Sal is just kinda short for
Salp.
Until I figure out some fancy fantasy portmanteau
July 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM
But yeah they're based on sea salps
Like, those scary pelagic pyrosome salps that just kinda free-float in the water
So for right now Sal is just kinda short for
Salp.
Until I figure out some fancy fantasy portmanteau
Like, those scary pelagic pyrosome salps that just kinda free-float in the water
So for right now Sal is just kinda short for
Salp.
Until I figure out some fancy fantasy portmanteau