Back from a CS fast---the Siphonophore spp.-all 46 meters of it.
Deep sea researchers in Indian ocean, saw it, and snipped a chunk for positive (DNA) identification, and species naming- at almost 700 meters of dark depth. The genus is known, Apolinia, and these glowing wormoids are related to corals and other multi organism colonial beasties. Stinging cells on board, as in my Homies, the Portuguese non females of war. But I digress.Others in the genus are much smaller, and rest vertically at depth. These are more spiral in form, and seem to have a species unique feeding stance. As many life forms at these depths, they have photophore cells, which glow. Go figure.
Outer space fascinates, rightly so. But science is ignorant of so much right here on Father Earth, in our (dying?)seas. Sheezamm! Makes the whales seem, well, like four cheeses high.