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White moon Jellyfish

Photo by DrewL.Rabin
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Field Notes

Description:

Jelly-like, round, transparent, smooth in center and rough on edges, about 1/2 inch thick

Habitat:

Atlantic ocean

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)

Positively a jelly fish. An Aurellia Arita (spelling?) aka, white moon jelly fish
It's probably a piece of something like this.. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7100338 which I have no idea which kind of jellyfish it is!
This to me looks like a very dead jellyfish. They can get broken up by boat propellors, or even just the waves. Eventually all the tissue degrades, leaving just the jelly behind. Be careful though, there may still be some stinging cells in there, which will still fire! It looks like all the tissue is gone, but better safe than sorry right? :) I think itm ight be impossible to ID the jellyfish from this! But a cool thing to find on the beach
if it's not a jellyfish, it may be an egg mass of some sort of marine snail?
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PublishedAugust 21, 2011

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