The Deep Sea is still full of wonder and unknown creatures with the latest round of newly described sponges being as alien and unusual as one might expect. With nothing much to eat in the deep sea, least of which is the minute picoplankton and bacterioplankton, these newly described deep sea sponges get their nutrition by turning to very unique feeding strategies.
从蒙特里海湾附近的海洋的深处发现和描述的四个新的深海海绵是食肉,捕获小桡足蛋糕和微小的虾,微观钩和刺。尽管没有消化道谈论,食肉海绵可以动员专门化细胞,以吞噬肌肉射的猎物,以导出他们在近底底的居住的这种非常被动的攻击模式中获得寄托。
Since the appearance of all sponges is quite mutable, they are all principally described based on the appearance of their internal silica spines called spicules. What we find particularly fascinating about this group of carnivorous sponges is that spicules resembling these modern species of Porifera已在沉积物中被发现为旧约的2亿年,这表明掠夺性海绵一直通过几个恐龙演替捕获史前海牧师。[MBARI]