<link href="../Styles/Style0002.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:928b0209-fa17-4666-b8dd-79c46766ca0c" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="" src="../Images/WHOI_colonial-jellyfish-rosacea-genus_Larry-Madin.jpg"/><br/> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> The Sargasso Sea Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise in 2006 turned up this strange colonial jellyfishlike siphonophore from the <i>Rosacea</i> genus. Multiple units comprise a siphonophore, each specialized for a function such as swimming, feeding or reproduction. Some siphonophores grow very large, with tentacles measuring up to 164 feet (50 m) long.<br/> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br/> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>