Jellyfish Rainbow

Jellyfish that live in the island of Tasmania, Australia, is very unique with a glowing rainbow colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple line at the bottom of the body. Because of its unique, a jellyfish expert also believes that the direct jellyfish species as the new time to view the first time.

Rainbow colors in the visible part Cilia, a pair of hair-like organ that move in unison when jellyfish swim in the water. Rainbow flame is not produced by the body, such as jellyfish bioluminiscent animals, but the reflection of light which fall to the surface in Cilia.

"This new species entry in the Ctenophora, a group of strange animals and not much known," said Lisa Gershwin, which is natural science curator at the Museum and Art Gallery Queen Victoria in Tasmania. To a jellyfish, the size of the body with relatively large length of 13 centimeters.

However, the body no vertebrate animal that is very fragile. Evidence, when exposed to the net to be appointed to the surface, the body directly damaged.

Gershwin find when making observations using a special tank that allows the animal to its under-water animals. This is a species of jellyfish to-159 that had found.