Venus Flower Basket Sponge Shrimp
When the shrimp s offspring are tiny they escape to find a venus flower basket of their own.
Venus flower basket sponge shrimp. And to top it off this creature has one of those classically bizarre life cycles one can only stand in awe of. Venus flower basket euplectella aspergillum is a beautifully ornate sponge that resides at the bottom of the ocean. As this happens a pair of shrimps one male and one female will stay inside the venus flower.
The venus flower basket euplectella aspergillum is a glass sponge in the phylum porifera. The sponge supports itself with an intricate tower of silica the same substance found in glass. And the final place on his ark is reserved for one in particular venus flower basket so called because of the sponges delicate white lattice like beauty.
Its impressive exoskeleton is made from silica the same material that makes. Young shrimp pairs enter the sponge when they are small but eventually become too big to get out. The venus flower basket holds captive two of those small shrimp like creatures one male and one female inside the sponge s hollow mesh tube.
The deep sea sponge venus flower basket constructs a glass building that houses a pair of mating shrimp. Euplectella aspergillum also known as the venus flower basket is one of the most unique and interesting lifeforms on earth. One particular type of glass sponge famously called the venus flower basket euplectella spp is known to house two small shrimps a male and a female inside its glass skeleton.
Each venus flower basket is usually inhabited by a mating pair of bioluminescent shrimp. However as the venus flower basket grows it seals off the open upper end and at the same time the shrimps grow so that they cannot swim through the side of the venus flower basket. Courtesy of lucent technologies bell labs sponges may conjure visions of the soft and.
Once moved in the shrimp cleans the basket and in return the basket provides food for the shrimp by trapping it in its tissues and then releasing wastes into its body. The venus flower basket is small tiny shrimp swim in and out of it. This is a truly alien like organ.