the name of the avartar guy is jake
Its diet consists of zooplankton, including copepods, larval fish, ctenophores, salps, other jellies, and fish eggs
I found a reference to leatherjackets and butterfly perch eating salps on www.marinenz.org.nz
No they are not, they are completely harmless. Salps live at the bottom of the ocean and come up at night, sometimes they would confuse a cloudy day with night. They play a very VERY important role in stopping the greenhouse gas effect on Earth. They absorb tons of Carbon daily, and drop it at the bottom of the ocean.
Vast numbers of salps which are massing off the coast of Sydney, Australia could be part of the planet's self defence against global warming. http://tinyurl.com/5bp6ee
Plankton are a diverse group of organisms that flow with the ocean currents. They include drifting or floating bacteria, archaea, algae, protozoa, jellyfish, copepods, salps, sea urchin larvae, starfish larvae, and fish larvae.
Non-vertebrate chordates are those animals that have a notochord but no true backbone. There are two groups known as the tunicates and lancelets. Tunicates include sea squirts and salps. Lancelets are a group of burrowing filter feeders that live on the ocean floor.
Sunfish live on a diet that consists mainly of jellyfish, but because this diet is nutritionally poor, they consume large amounts in order to develop and maintain their great bulk. The diet of the ocean sunfish consists primarily of various jellyfish (similar to the diet of a leatherback turtle). Additionally, it consumes salps, comb jellies, zooplankton, squid, crustaceans, small fishes, fish larvae, and eel grass.This diet is nutritionally poor, forcing the sunfish to consume a large amount of food to maintain its size. The range of food items found inside sunfish indicates that the sunfish feeds at many levels, from the surface to deep water, and occasionally down to the seafloor in some areas. The sunfish can spit out and pull in water through its small mouth to tear apart soft-bodied prey. Its teeth are fused into a beak-like structure, allowing it to break up harder organisms. In addition, pharyngeal teeth located in the throat grind food into smaller pieces before passing them to the stomach.
Plankton is a very general term, and is used to describe the tiny, floating organisms in the water. Phytoplankton are plants, and zooplankton are animals. Phytoplankton is usually algae, although zooplankton has many different forms. Zooplankton includes any free-floating animal larvae, some diatoms, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates, foraminifera, amphipods, krill, copepods, and salps.
To summarize:Everywhere.From wikipedia:"Chordata, are deuterostome animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail for at least some period of their life cycles. Taxonomically, the phylum includes the subphyla Vertebrata, including mammals (and thus humans), fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds; Tunicata, including salps and sea squirts; and Cephalochordata, comprising the lancelets."
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 9 words with the pattern -ALP-. That is, five letter words with 2nd letter A and 3rd letter L and 4th letter P. In alphabetical order, they are: calpa calps kalpa palpi palps ralph salpa salps talpa
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