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Jellyfish

Cassiopea

Photo by NayNay
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Field Notes

Habitat:

This particular one was photographed at the Maui Aquarium. Commonly found in shallow mangrove swamps, mudflats, and turtle grass flats in Florida and various other similar environments around the world, where it lives usually upside-down on the bottom.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
NayNay
Thanks for the ID :-)
LauraMaria
Ah, this is from the Cassiopeia sp.! It's also called the upside down jellyfish :) It gets that way because it has symbiotic algae inside it that calcify and make a shell, which makes the jellyfish top heavy so it falls over and stays that way! They're amazing things, kind of live more like sea anemones!
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PublishedMay 10, 2011

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