Silky+Medusa


 * Phylum: Cnidaria **

**Common Name:** Silky Medusa

**Scientific Name:** Colobonema sericeum

**Class:** Hydrozoa

**Location:** Mostly these are distributed in midwater nearly of 2,297-3,281 feet, or 700-1,000 meters deep

**Size:** 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter

**Habitat:** mesopelagic depths of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans

**Living Requirements:** Deep Sea

**Life C** **y** ** cle: ** A Medusa produces eggs or sperm, which are usually shed into the water; when an egg is fertilized, it develops into a swimming larva, which eventually settles and grows into a polyp

**Male and female differences:** They can produce both sperm and eggs


 * Interesting Facts: **
 * Colobonema is a carnivorous ambush predator that drifts motionless with its tentacles outspread, waiting for unsuspecting prey
 * When threatened its tentacles glow blue and red
 * Scientists suspect thatColobonema can re-grow the dropped tentacles, since they often observe this jelly with tentacles of different lengths.

**Human Impact:** Living creatures in the bottom of the ocean are affected by human activities on the surface. such as trash and other things.



Zookeeper Hannah Jones [|/books.google.com/books?id=iQSTgX1UkdUC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=colobonema+sericeum+habitat] [] []