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Jellyfish & Sea Nettles, Aquariums

A unique collection of jellyfish and sea nettles.
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Flowerhat Jellyfish, Long Beach Aquarium<br />
This striking and rare jelly has brilliant, multicolored tentacles trailing from a translucent, pinstriped bell. It also has tentacles around the rim of its bell that it can quickly coil and uncoil. This mysterious jelly sometimes spends its time on the seafloor. Flower Hat Jellies have no head, heart, brain, bones, cartilage or real eyes, yet they’re among the major predators in the ocean.
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Flowerhat Jellyfish, Long Beach Aquarium
This striking and rare jelly has brilliant, multicolored tentacles trailing from a translucent, pinstriped bell. It also has tentacles around the rim of its bell that it can quickly coil and uncoil. This mysterious jelly sometimes spends its time on the seafloor. Flower Hat Jellies have no head, heart, brain, bones, cartilage or real eyes, yet they’re among the major predators in the ocean.

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  • Mediterranean jellyfish, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
Found primarily in the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea and Adriatic Sea, these jellies, unlike many others of its species, are capable of autonomous movement without relying on the current.
  • Flowerhat Jellyfish, Long Beach Aquarium<br />
This striking and rare jelly has brilliant, multicolored tentacles trailing from a translucent, pinstriped bell. It also has tentacles around the rim of its bell that it can quickly coil and uncoil. This mysterious jelly sometimes spends its time on the seafloor. Flower Hat Jellies have no head, heart, brain, bones, cartilage or real eyes, yet they’re among the major predators in the ocean.
  • Sea Nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.
  • Warty comb jellyfish, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
These beautiful comb jellies are oval-shaped, with eight rows of tiny comblike plates that they beat to move themselves through the water. As they swim, the comb rows diffract light to produce a shimmering, rainbow effect.  Alien as it looks, a jelly’s soft shape is perfectly adapted to its environment. The animal’s thin skin stretches over a body that’s more than 95% water (no bones or shells to weigh it down).  Comb jellies will eat comb jellies larger than themselves by biting off chunks with special cilia structures in their mouths.  While not sea jellies, comb jellies have a close relationship as is indicated by their translucent gelatinous bodies. However, unlike most sea jellies, they do not sting.
  • Comb jelly, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
These beautiful comb jellies are oval-shaped, with eight rows of tiny comblike plates that they beat to move themselves through the water. As they swim, the comb rows diffract light to produce a shimmering, rainbow effect.  Alien as it looks, a jelly’s soft shape is perfectly adapted to its environment. The animal’s thin skin stretches over a body that’s more than 95% water (no bones or shells to weigh it down).  Comb jellies will eat comb jellies larger than themselves by biting off chunks with special cilia structures in their mouths.  While not sea jellies, comb jellies have a close relationship as is indicated by their translucent gelatinous bodies. However, unlike most sea jellies, they do not sting.
  • Egg-yolk jellyfish, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
Like a large bird egg cracked and poured into the water, that three-foot, translucent bell is yolk-yellow at the center, with hundreds of tentacles clustered around the margin. The egg-yolk jelly is one of the larger species of jellies commonly found in Monterey Bay. This massive jelly usually drifts motionless or moves with gentle pulsing. Acting like an underwater spider web with a mild sting, an egg-yolk jelly captures other jellies that swim into its mass of tentacles.
  • Lion's Mane Jellyfish, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
This type of jellyfish is the largest known species of jellyfish.  It is also known as one of the longest animals in the world, as the tentacles can reach over a 100 feet long.
  • Black Sea nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
The black sea nettle is considered a giant jelly; its distinctive purplish bell can reach over three feet in diameter; its lacy, pinkish oral arms can reach nearly 20 feet in length and its stinging tentacles 25 feet or more. It probably lives in deeper, calmer waters but has appeared in large blooms in coastal areas off Southern California, most recently in 1999.
  • Black Sea nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
The black sea nettle is considered a giant jelly; its distinctive purplish bell can reach over three feet in diameter; its lacy, pinkish oral arms can reach nearly 20 feet in length and its stinging tentacles 25 feet or more. It probably lives in deeper, calmer waters but has appeared in large blooms in coastal areas off Southern California, most recently in 1999.
  • West Cost sea nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
A common variety of true jellyfish found in the Pacific Ocean (mostly near the coast from California to Alaska).  Not all jellies sting, but the West Coast sea nettle packs a powerful punch. The "bell" can grow up to 3 feet and the long and the spiraling oral arms accompanied with the 24 stinging tentacles may trail as far as 12 to 15 feet long.  It hunts tiny drifting animals by trailing those long tentacles and frilly mouth-arms in the current.
  • West Coast sea nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
A common variety of true jellyfish found in the Pacific Ocean (mostly near the coast from California to Alaska).  Not all jellies sting, but the West Coast sea nettle packs a powerful punch. The "bell" can grow up to 3 feet and the long and the spiraling oral arms accompanied with the 24 stinging tentacles may trail as far as 12 to 15 feet long.  It hunts tiny drifting animals by trailing those long tentacles and frilly mouth-arms in the current.
  • West Coast sea nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
A common variety of true jellyfish found in the Pacific Ocean (mostly near the coast from California to Alaska).  Not all jellies sting, but the West Coast sea nettle packs a powerful punch. The "bell" can grow up to 3 feet and the long and the spiraling oral arms accompanied with the 24 stinging tentacles may trail as far as 12 to 15 feet long.  It hunts tiny drifting animals by trailing those long tentacles and frilly mouth-arms in the current.
  • West Coast sea nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
A common variety of true jellyfish found in the Pacific Ocean (mostly near the coast from California to Alaska).  Not all jellies sting, but the West Coast sea nettle packs a powerful punch. The "bell" can grow up to 3 feet and the long and the spiraling oral arms accompanied with the 24 stinging tentacles may trail as far as 12 to 15 feet long.  It hunts tiny drifting animals by trailing those long tentacles and frilly mouth-arms in the current.
  • West Coast sea nettle, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
A common variety of true jellyfish found in the Pacific Ocean (mostly near the coast from California to Alaska).  Not all jellies sting, but the West Coast sea nettle packs a powerful punch. The "bell" can grow up to 3 feet and the long and the spiraling oral arms accompanied with the 24 stinging tentacles may trail as far as 12 to 15 feet long.  It hunts tiny drifting animals by trailing those long tentacles and frilly mouth-arms in the current.
  • West Coast sea nettle. Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
A common variety of true jellyfish found in the Pacific Ocean (mostly near the coast from California to Alaska).  Not all jellies sting, but the West Coast sea nettle packs a powerful punch. The "bell" can grow up to 3 feet and the long and the spiraling oral arms accompanied with the 24 stinging tentacles may trail as far as 12 to 15 feet long.  It hunts tiny drifting animals by trailing those long tentacles and frilly mouth-arms in the current.
  • Moon jelly, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
This alien-looking creature is named for its translucent, moonlike circular bell. Instead of long, trailing tentacles, moon jellies have a short, fine fringe (cilia) that sweeps food toward the mucous layer on the edge of the bell. Prey is stored in pouches until the oral arms pick it up and begin to digest it.  Found worldwide in temperate and tropical waters, moon jellies feed in quiet bays and harbors. Although moon jellies have a sting, they pose little threat to humans.
  • Moon jelly, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
This alien-looking creature is named for its translucent, moonlike circular bell. Instead of long, trailing tentacles, moon jellies have a short, fine fringe (cilia) that sweeps food toward the mucous layer on the edge of the bell. Prey is stored in pouches until the oral arms pick it up and begin to digest it.  Found worldwide in temperate and tropical waters, moon jellies feed in quiet bays and harbors. Although moon jellies have a sting, they pose little threat to humans.
  • Moon jelly, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
This alien-looking creature is named for its translucent, moonlike circular bell. Instead of long, trailing tentacles, moon jellies have a short, fine fringe (cilia) that sweeps food toward the mucous layer on the edge of the bell. Prey is stored in pouches until the oral arms pick it up and begin to digest it.  Found worldwide in temperate and tropical waters, moon jellies feed in quiet bays and harbors. Although moon jellies have a sting, they pose little threat to humans.
  • Moon jelly, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
This alien-looking creature is named for its translucent, moonlike circular bell. Instead of long, trailing tentacles, moon jellies have a short, fine fringe (cilia) that sweeps food toward the mucous layer on the edge of the bell. Prey is stored in pouches until the oral arms pick it up and begin to digest it.  Found worldwide in temperate and tropical waters, moon jellies feed in quiet bays and harbors. Although moon jellies have a sting, they pose little threat to humans.
  • Moon jelly, Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br />
This alien-looking creature is named for its translucent, moonlike circular bell. Instead of long, trailing tentacles, moon jellies have a short, fine fringe (cilia) that sweeps food toward the mucous layer on the edge of the bell. Prey is stored in pouches until the oral arms pick it up and begin to digest it.  Found worldwide in temperate and tropical waters, moon jellies feed in quiet bays and harbors. Although moon jellies have a sting, they pose little threat to humans.

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