DID YOU KNOW ?
The earth's ocean is filled with massive,hollow, worm like entites called pyrosome that can grow as big as a sperm whale.
Pyrosome are free floating colonial tunicates that usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas.pyrosomes are cylindrical or conical shaped colonies up to 18 meters (60ft) long, made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids.
SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION
Kingdom-- Animalia
Phylum-- chordata
Subphylum-- tunicata
Class-- thaliacea
Order-- pyrosomida
Family-- pyrosomatidae
Genus-- pyrosoma
The name pyrosoma comes from the Greek ('pyro' means fire, 'soma' means body).
Pyrosomes are brightly bioluminescent, flashing a pale blue-green light that can be seen for many tens of metres.
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