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

Indlela yokusiqaphela
- 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
Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba
Ityhefu iphuma ngenaliti yokuhlaba.
Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?
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
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.Several people who touched a rope covered in this hydroid got an acute, painful dermatitis. No deaths are known.1
Ukuba siyahlaba
- Phuma emanzini kwaye ususe naziphi na ii-tentacle (ngeiglavu okanye ngelaphu).
- Kwiijelifishi zebhokisi (box jellyfish) zasetropiki: thela iviniga kwiindawo ezihlatyiweyo ubuncinane imizuzwana engama-30, biza uncedo kwaye ulungele ukwenza i-CPR. Kwii-bluebottle nakwezinye ezininzi: hlambulula ngamanzi olwandle, emva koko usebenzise amanzi ashushu ngenxa yeentlungu.
Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala
Hlala ukhuselekile
- Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
- Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Ukuba siyakuhlaba: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.
Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile
Phi emhlabeni?
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-9 zilandelelana
sicotha kunenkumba yasegadiniU-Christmas tree hydroid mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?
Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.
Sikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyaniso
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
Kwiingcali zetyhefu
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Pennaria disticha
- Iqela
- Iijelifishi nezinye izilwanyana zaselwandle ezihlabayo
- Usapho
- Pennariidae2
- Ucwangco
- Anthoathecata
- Amazwekazi
- uLwandlekazi lweAtlantiki, uLwandlekazi lwePasifiki, uLwandlekazi lwaseIndiya, uLwandle lweKharibhiya, uLwandle lweMeditera, iGulf yaseMexico, uLwandle lweTimor ne-Arafura, iBhayi yaseBengal, iGulf yaseCalifornia, Iilwandlekazi
- Iintsana
- 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
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3
Apho iinyaniso zivela khona
- Pennaria disticha (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Pennaria disticha (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
- Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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