White Bryozoan in glass box
PU1135-3
A sea lace on a silk cushion. It is the delicate skeleton left by a colony of Bryozoans in the Mediterranean Sea. These animals, very similar to coral polyps, live in colonies hooked all their life to the same substrate. They lives in colonies, connected by kind of nerves, sharing food . We know 5000 species with diferent shapes, sizes, and structures, rigid (limestone) or flexible (chitinous). The visible part, which protects the bryozoaire (Bryozons) can be disc , fan, slices, corkscrew, stick,... shaped. This species is a Triphyllozoon sp. When they die, they become so many little touches of lace in the ocean.
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