Recently, Wu Jianguo, an employee of the Xinglong Huaqiao Farm Department in Wanning City, found a rare aquatic creature in the fish tank at home, its whole body is transparent, like four petal shapes, there are many small tentacles around, and after preliminary identification by relevant experts, the aquatic species found by the staff is an endangered species of peach blossom jellyfish.
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Peach blossom jellyfish is an extremely rare coelenterate animal, first born about 550 million years ago, the history of existence on the earth is older than the giant panda, whitefin dolphin, also known as the "water giant panda".
The peach blossom jellyfish is transparent throughout, soft as silk, headless and tailless in a circle, with tentacle-like objects growing in the middle, shrinking one by one in the water, like a petal peach blossom. This beautiful aquatic spirit was called "peach blossom fish" in ancient times and has high ornamental value.
Although it has been living on the earth for many years, peach blossom jellyfish have high requirements for water quality conditions, and slight changes in the environment may disappear. For more than 100 years, the earth's natural environment has deteriorated, the water quality is more polluted, and the peach blossom jellyfish is extremely rare, which is a rare species that is endangered.
It is understood that some people have also found aquatic species suspected of peach blossom jellyfish in an abandoned well in Wuzhishan City, Hainan, and the emergence of peach blossom jellyfish is related to the good water ecology of Hainan.
Why can peach blossom jellyfish be found in wells and tanks? Experts explain that since the life of peach blossom jellyfish is composed of asexual hydra-type stages and sexual jellyfish-type stages alternately, under warm water environment conditions, peach blossom jellyfish appear in jellyfish form, and under low temperature conditions, they all exist in the form of water hydra bodies, attached to underwater decaying things, rocks and other objects. When the living conditions improve, under certain environmental conditions, the hydra will germinate into jellyfish.
Videos and pictures of peach blossom jellyfish were taken by Hainan Daily reporter Yuan Chen