轉載：罕見水中生物－爐管海綿！長得竟然跟“餅乾怪獸”一模一樣！

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轉載：罕見水中生物－爐管海綿！長得竟然跟“餅乾怪獸”一模一樣！





海底也有餅乾怪獸？美國兒童節目《芝麻街》(Sesame Street)節目裡有個餅乾怪獸（Cookie Monster），
藍色毛茸茸的外型，一雙圓滾滾的大眼，手上永遠有塊餅乾，深受許多人喜愛。
想不到近日水底攝影師漢德勒（Mauricio Handler）竟發現有個怪生物爐管海綿(stove-pipe sponge)，
長得跟餅乾怪獸一模一樣，讓人嘖嘖稱奇。
據了解，漢德勒近日在加勒比海南部的庫拉索潛水時，發現這個奇妙的生物，由於長相特殊，讓他很驚訝，
隨手拍下這個爐管海綿。其實爐管海綿生長在加勒比海的水域，主要以食浮游生物維生。



爐管海綿(stove-pipe sponge) 學名： Aplysina archeri
Aplysina archeri is a species of tube sponge that has long tube-like structures of cylindrical shape.
Many tubes are attached to one particular part of the organism.
A single tube can grow up to 5 feet high and 3 inches thick.



Aplysina archeri (also known as stove-pipe sponge because of its shape) is a species of tube sponge that has
long tube-like structures of cylindrical shape. Many tubes are attached to one particular part of the organism.
A single tube can grow up to 5 feet high and 3 inches thick. These sponges mostly live in the Atlantic Ocean:
the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, and Bonaire. They are filter feeders; they eat food such as plankton or suspended
detritus as it passes them. Very little is known about their behavioral patterns except for their feeding ecology and
reproductive biology. Tubes occur in varying colors including lavender, gray and brown.
They reproduce both by asexual and sexual reproduction. When they release their sperms, the sperms float in water
and eventually land somewhere where they begin to reproduce cells and grow. These sponges take hundreds of years
to grow and never stop growing until they die. Snails are among their natural predators. The dense population of these
sponges is going down because of toxic dumps and oil spill.


▲爐管海綿透過管子過濾食物和氧氣維生～所以管子上有許多小氣孔，
他們的海綿細管像極了煙囪或是爐管，所以才有稱作爐管海綿(stove-pipe sponge)




▲他們的管子都是相當對稱的喔！




▲清潔蝦虎魚經常住在他們的管子裡面～形成一種共生關係！

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