Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
1This solitary salp reproduces asexually to make another chain of salps.
2How a solitary salp gets around is fundamentally different from how a fish moves.
3That tower there"-some irregular smudge-"was the skin library, and those were the salp vats."
4Not that you should go and slap a bunch of salp-inspired jets all over your underwater robot.
5So in the end you have an aggregate salp that benefits from uncoordinated pulsing yet still manages to generate efficient wake.
6Not pictured are Larry Ankrom, Steve Etter, Bill Hagmaier, and Tom Salp.
7Salps, on the other hand, largely maintain their shape as they jet around.
8Not even angel-wing clams or salps have ever given off such a powerful light.
9Salps clogged nets, impairing fishing activities along the coast.
10Salps have a goofy way of going about life.
11Swimmers were scared by the gelatinous appearance of the salps, and thought they were jellyfish.
12Salpingitis is derived from two words: Salping, meaning tube; ltis, meaning inflammation; Fallopian was the discoverer.
13Salps are usually found in the Mediterranean and adjacent seas but with the ocean warming they are moving north.