Wanning Xinglong: There are endangered species of peach blossom jellyfish in the fish tanks of residents' homes

A resident of Wanning Xinglong found an endangered species, peach blossom jellyfish, in a fish tank in their home. Photo by reporter Yuan Chen

Recently, a resident of Wanning Xinglong found a rare aquatic organism in the fish tank at home, its whole body is transparent, shaped like petals, there are many small tentacles around, and then preliminarily identified by the relevant experts of the Hainan Academy of Marine and Fisheries Sciences, the aquatic species found by the resident is an endangered species of peach blossom jellyfish.　　

It is understood that peach blossom jellyfish has 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, water pollution is more, and peach blossom jellyfish are extremely rare. Previously, 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.　　

Peach blossom jellyfish　　

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 and whitefin dolphin, which is 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 elf has a high ornamental value and was called "peach blossom fish" in ancient times.　　

Drafting of this edition / Yang Wei (Reporter Sun Hui)