thumb|244px| Circular ring cluster of pelagic salps off Aorangaia Island, New Zealand thumb|244px| thumb|244px|right| thumb|244px|right|Pegea confederata on a 1995 Postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan|stamp from Azerbaijan
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thumb|244px| Circular ring cluster of pelagic salps off Aorangaia Island, New Zealand thumb|244px| thumb|244px|right| thumb|244px|right|Pegea confederata on a 1995 Postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan|stamp from Azerbaijan
A salp (: salps) or salpa (: salpae or salpas) is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae. The salp moves by contracting its gelatinous body in order to pump water through it; it is one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom. The salp feeds on phytoplankton, which it collects by straining water through its internal feeding filters.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).