Looking like a cookie carved into four pulsating slices and placed on a pretty saucer, this upside-down jellyfish basked on the reef flat of Terumbu Raya. If turned the right way up, Neptune's curse unfailingly places the animal back on its bell.
An oddball in its class, these comely scyphozoans pop up every and now then in the reefs around Semakau, where they sit in shallow pools to charge their cells with the by-products of solar energy. Their occurence near islands fringed by thick mangal is perhaps no accident, for the larvae of Caribbean cousins are partial to the waxy leaves of red mangroves, on which they settle to bud off new waves of free-living polyps with a manubrial circle of mouths.
No, it doesn't look like a cookie. I'd say it looks rather like a pudding on a saucer. Pudding charging its cells with the by-products of solar energy.
Posted by: greg kredyt hipoteczny kalkulator | 27 July 2009 at 11:50 PM