Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography calls this Swima bombiviridis or in a less scientific term the “swimming green bomb”. They were just discovered on seabeds more than 2 kilometers from the sea surface and is a member of the Annelids, a large group of segmented worms of which other members are the leeches and earthworms.
The new species of undersea worm S. bombiviridis was discovered in 2001 as researchers explored deep off California with a remotely operated submersible. Since then, they’ve found six more Swima species off western U.S. and Mexico and the Philippines…
It is thought that the green bioluminescent bombs (green objects pointed by the arrow in the picture above) are used for defensive purposes—to distract predators from eating the worms.
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