The mollusks figure above are either incur ready for Coachella , or showcasing an challenging young mintage of sea creature . This just - discovered type of polyp spends its life decorating the shells of snail .
Nassa clay snails pass their daytime inhabit in the grit , coming out only at night . It ’s not surprising , then , that the one just to the south of the Red Sea had accessory that , until now , were unknown to science . A group of biologist from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences haverecently publish a paperin PLOS One , about the foreign polyps decorating the shells of these snails .
The polypus are a build ofhydrozoa , tiny invertebrate that can conjoin together to take shape jellyfish - like creatures like the Portuguese Man O ’ War . Not much is known about these especial hydrozoan , but they are interesting to scientists because they expend fleeceable fluorescent proteins , or GFPs .
These proteins , now noted in biology as tags that show gene grammatical construction , were first identify in medusozoa — non - polyp jellyfish . It ’s a rare trait in polypus . The newly - let on coinage is specially rare because they show this fleeceable gleam around the “ mouth ” country of the polyp . The researchers speculate that the glow allows them to attract food .
This make out them from other green - beam polyp that otherwise look very similar , yield biologists another way to tell various polypus coinage apart .
[ PLOS One ]
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