velella velellas

Description and Comments

we have been coming to South Padre Island, Texas for 17 years and this is the first time we have ever seen velella velellas washed up on the shore. These are a blue jelly type with a blue firm jelly kind of a fin on the top with a round or oblong body. They lay flat on the sand with the "fin" sticking up

Author

Jellywatcher (not verified)

Type of organism

Velella

Quantity

100

Latitude

27.13

Longitude

-97.04

Comments

jellywatch Fri, 03/29/2019 - 23:08

Thanks for the report! We have had a few Velella sightings from that general area over the years: (Orange spots at https://jellywatch.org/lnc.php#10/27.6872/-97.1837  )