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Phronima sedentaria ✨❤️🧑🚀
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Phronima sedentaria ✨❤️🧑🚀
lowkey wanna make an OC based on it lol
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Pic o' the Week: Microscopic Monster .... in the Sea
Phronima sedentaria in the bell it made from its prey, by Christian Sardet and Sarif Mirshak Life among the ghouls and goblins of Halloween season may be harrowing but it’s no better in the watery world of our ocean’s microscopic plankton. Consider the Phronima sedentaria, a transparent plankton species whose carnivorous and parasitizing are spooky. Phronima sedentaria is a type of hyperiid…
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The Phronima sedentaria (1775)
Phylum : Arthropoda Subphylum : Crustacea Class : Malacostraca Order : Amphipoda Family : Phronimidae Genus : Phronima Species : P. sedentaria
Least concern
3 cm long (size)
Oceans worldwide (map)
Females of P. sedentaria live in the barrel-like bodies of salps and pyrosomas, and use their strong pleopods to propel their homes through the water. They can somersault quickly in their barrels and thus change directions. The species is carnivorous on zooplankton, krill, and arrowworms.