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Mangrove Upsidedown Jellyfish

Cassiopea xamachana

Photo by LivanEscudero
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Shallow mangrove bays and inlets, with sandy or muddy bottoms where sunlight is plentiful.

Notes:

There was a large "garden" of them here. ( I assume they are C. xamachana because of habitat, I don't kow if at least some may be C. frondosa, as some look a little different. ) Anyhow, they lay upside down in shallow water where they can get plenty of sun to help the symbiotic algae living in their tissuesphotosynthesize.

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PublishedApril 3, 2013

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