"Giant panda" discovered in Chengdu
Photo by Zhao Li, the peach blossom jellyfish brought back to the museum
On September 7, the netizen "Chengdu Dadao" told reporters that at about 4 pm on the 5th, he took his children to fish in a pond outside a community near Daguanyan Ecological Park, and accidentally caught peach blossom jellyfish.
Zhao Li, curator of the Chengdu Huaxi Entomological Museum, said that from the preliminary judgment of the shape, it should be Sichuan Peach Blossom Jellyfish, with shorter antennae than Chinese Peach Blossom Jellyfish.
According to reports, the peach blossom jellyfish is a primitive low invertebrate that was first born about 550 million years ago.
Experts believe that the peach blossom jellyfish is a veritable "living fossil". It records the development of life on the earth with its own unique life formation. It is also known as the "water giant panda".
According to Zhao Li, the peach blossom jellyfish discovered in Qingcheng Mountain in Dujiangyan in 1984 was confirmed to be an endemic species in Sichuan-Sichuan peach blossom jellyfish.
On the signboard of Chengdu Daguanyan Park, there is an introduction that it belongs to the Dujiangyan Irrigation Water System. Based on this, it is speculated that the Sichuan Peach Blossom Jellyfish in Daguanyan may have come from Dujiangyan.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Yu Zunsu