Christmas tree hydroid
The Christmas tree hydroid is a small, branching sea creature that grows in colonies on rocks and hard surfaces in shallow water. It is found in warm seas around the world, and it is common in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientists have used it to study how animals catch their prey.1

Co renconuscher el
- Colonies have many branching stems, up to 30 cm high, arranged in a tree-like shape1
- The stalks are dark brown or blackish, but are often coated with algae and diatoms, giving them a muddy look1
- The tiny whitish polyps are tinged with red1
- Each polyp has many slender tentacles at its base and up to twelve tentacles with knobbed tips around its mouth1
Forza dal tissi
Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.
Tge fa ses tissi?
Contact with a rope on which this hydroid was growing caused an acute, painful skin inflammation (dermatitis) in several people. Contact with the stinging cells on its tentacles is the cause.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.Several people who touched a rope covered in this hydroid got an acute, painful dermatitis. No deaths are known.1
Sch'el piztga
- Va or da l'aua e prenda davent las tentaclas (cun manetschas u cun in tschop).
- Tar medusas cubicas tropicalas: versa aschieu sin las piztgadas durant almain 30 secundas, clama agid e sajas pront da far ina reanimaziun. Tar galeras portugaisas e las bleras autras: lava cun aua da mar, lura cun aua chauda cunter las dolurs.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza
Nua sin il mund?
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
uschè lung sco 9 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auter
pli plaun ch'ina lindorna da curtinQuant grond è Christmas tree hydroid cumpareglià cun TAI?
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Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
It has spread around the world largely through people's maritime activities, by attaching to ships and structures.1
It has been used in research into how animals capture their prey.1
Colonies grow by budding, which forms new feeding polyps.1
Its free-swimming larvae drift with the plankton before settling on a hard surface.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Pennaria disticha
- Gruppa
- Medusas ed autras creaturas da mar che piztgan
- Famiglia
- Pennariidae2
- Urden
- Anthoathecata
- Continents
- Ocean Atlantic, Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar Caribic, Mar Mediterran, Golf dal Mexico, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal, Golf da California, Ils oceans
- Poppins
- Females release up to six eggs. Each embryo develops within a day or so into a free-swimming larva called a planula, which later settles on a hard surface to start a new colony.1
- Privel per umans
- 2 / 5: Dolurus3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Pennaria disticha (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Pennaria disticha (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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Piztgadas