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Longest Recorded Siphonophore Colony

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up to119m

2020 Ningaloo giant siphonophore colony

Off Ningaloo, Western Australia

On 16 March 2020, researchers filmed an extraordinary siphonophore colony off Ningaloo, Western Australia. Guinness reports an estimated total length up to 119 metres, the longest recorded siphonophore.