Salps! Bite Sci-zed

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Images:
Curled Yellow Salp image used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. Found at: http://eol.org/data_objects/13144871
Author: Edith Widder

Weelia cylindrica, solitary form image used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. Found at: http://eol.org/data_objects/10093962
Author: Census of Marine Zooplankton, Photographer Russ Hopcroft, U. Alaska-Fairbanks

Sources:

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=95716&tid=3622&cid=125409

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10236249509378939#.UlhxdFCsim4

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/353/1378/1943

http://www.planktonchronicles.org/en/episode/salps-exploding-populations

http://eol.org/pages/1574/overview

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salps

http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/07/03/ocean-overrun-with-gentle-gelatinous-salps/

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