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Porpita porpita

Photo by VivBraznell
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Description:

Approximately 1' in diameter washed up on the shoreline amongst comb jellies

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Ava T-B
Beautiful and it's a "Name's-the-same" organism: Porpita porpita. Here's Karen's blog about scientific naming http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/31338827536/lets-talk-scientific-classification

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