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Tiny clinging box jellyfish

Copula sivickisi
Ku linnya: The scientific name honours the Lithuanian zoologist Pranciškus Baltrus Šivickis.1
Tekirina kabiTekirina kabi eri abantu. Tewali kya kweraliikirira.
Jellyfish n'ebibojja eby'ennyanja Ebiwuuzi ebibojjaKirya: Ennyama
Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.

Copula sivickisi is a tiny box jellyfish, about 1 cm across, that lives in shallow warm seas. It is the only species in its genus and is active only at night. It is unusual among box jellyfish because it has a mating ritual and fertilises its eggs inside the body.1

Kibeera mu
Shallow warm Pacific waters from Japan and Taiwan to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, plus the west coast of Sumatra1
Oseyani ya Pasifiki, Oseyani ya Atlantiki, Ennyanja ya Timor ne Arafura
Awaka
It lives in shallow warm waters. By day it hides on the underside of coral, stones or blades of seagrass, and at night it rises through the water to feed.1
Obuwanvu
1 cm (0,4 in)1
Embiro ezisinga
nga 0,2 km/h (0,12 mph)
Okuwuga: olupapula lwakyo olwa Wikipedia
Kirya ki?
It feeds on zooplankton, including copepods, hooded shrimps, zoea larvae and the glowing dinoflagellate Noctiluca. It rises to the surface, then sinks with its tentacles spread out to catch prey.1
Ddala!Ekifaananyi kya Tiny clinging box jellyfish
Tiny clinging box jellyfish. Ekifaananyi: Patrick Randall. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

  • The bell is boxy in shape, unlike the umbrella shape of true jellyfish.1
  • It has four slender tentacles hanging from the rim, each banded with orange.1
  • The eight gonads (reproductive organs) can be seen through the transparent bell. In males they are orange, and in females they are white-speckled.1
  • Mature females have orange-brown markings around the edge of the bell.1
  • It is most active at night and hides during the day, folding its tentacles inside the bell and flattening itself.1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Ebiwuuzi ebibojja

Enkumi n'enkumi z'obutoffaali obutono obubojja zikuba ekintu bwe kizikwatako.

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.

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When disturbed by day it hides, folding its tentacles inside the bell and flattening itself against the seabed.1

Bwe kibojja

  • Va mu mazzi era ggyako ebiwuuzi (tentacles) byonna (ng'okozesa ggalavu oba olugoye).
  • Ku box jellyfish ez'omu bitundu ebibuguma: yiwa viniga ku bifo ebibojjeddwa okumala waakiri sikonda 30, kuba essimu okufuna obuyambi era beera mwetegefu okukola CPR. Ku bluebottles n'endala ezisinga: yozaayo n'amazzi g'ennyanja, oluvannyuma amazzi agookya olw'obulumi.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

  • Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
  • Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
  • Bw'emu ekubojja: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

Tiny clinging box jellyfish kiwanvu nga 1 cm (0,4 in)Empeke y'omuceere nga 7 mm (0,3 in)Ekinusu kya yuro 1 nga 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
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Ebituufu

1

It has twenty-four eyes, grouped on four stalked structures called rhopalia on the rim of the bell.1

2

Unlike most box jellyfish, it has an elaborate mating ritual. A male grabs a female by one tentacle and pulls her around while they entwine.1

3

A female has been seen mating with several males, up to eight times in a two-hour period.1

4

It is attracted to light, and it chooses a spot on the seabed soon after dawn, spending a few minutes selecting a good location before settling there.1

5

Its average maximum swimming speed is 4.9 cm per second, which is faster than the currents near the surface of the shallow waters where it lives.1

6

The male passes a red bundle of sperm (a spermatophore) to one of the female's tentacles, which pushes it into her manubrium, the tube hanging from the underside of the bell.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi
Copula sivickisi
Ekibinja
Jellyfish n'ebibojja eby'ennyanja
Amaka
Tripedaliidae2
Ensengeka
Carybdeida
Ssemazinga
Oseyani ya Pasifiki, Oseyani ya Atlantiki, Ennyanja ya Timor ne Arafura, Oseyani
Abaana abawere
Eggs are fertilised inside the female's bell. About two or three days later she releases a mucous strand of embryos into the sea, and these develop into polyps.1
Akabi eri abantu
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Ebituufu we biva

  1. Copula sivickisi (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Copula sivickisi (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
  3. Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.

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