Pretty Jelly in Catalina 08-30-09

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Pretty Jelly in Catalina 08-30-09

Postby SeekNCritters on Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:05 pm

Mary and I got to go snorkeling at Lion Head from the Sundiver Express on 08-30-09. In about 5 feet of water, we came across this beautiful creature. I immediately swam back to the boat to grab my camera, of course!

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You can see the relative size of this critter near the end of this video from that day (54 seconds in to the video):


I looked through the 1998 Wrobel and Mills Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates book and the closest thing that looks like this is the Pelagia noctiluca (pg 54). Can anyone confirm ID?

-Dana
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Re: Pretty Jelly in Catalina 08-30-09

Postby Trace on Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:56 pm

Dana,
Really cool jelly, nice find!!!
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