Description
Alien 15 – A beautiful Veliger, drifting through the night-time abyss. Veliger is the term for an intermediate life stage (post-egg, pre-snail) of many marine gastropods, during which they drift with the ocean currents, collecting microscopic bits of organic debris such as “marine snow”, and preying upon microscopic organisms like copepods and other zooplankton. Like many creatures in my Aliens Collection, the rainbow colors on it’s arms are often mistaken for bioluminescence, but those hues actually come from light from my strobes refracting through the translucent arms covered in cilia. They appear to hold motionless in the water, but are actually using thousands of cilia to hover at a desired depth – as soon as they retract their arms they sink rapidly.
Alien 15 is available from 15×15 up to 24×24 squares and looks great in a grouping with others from the collection.