Big cubomedusae washed ashore in Santa Rosa Sound, Pensacola Beach Florida

Description and Comments

Large 7-8" bell height box jelly was found washed ashore in Santa Rosa Sound, Pensacola Beach Florida. Biggest I have seen in the Gulf. I think it is Tamoya haplonema

Author

Drew

Type of organism

Box Jelly

Quantity

Tue, 12/13/2011 - 17:00

Latitude

30.34

Longitude

-87.12

Comments

Thanks very much for the

jellywatch Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:14

Thanks very much for the report and photo! Extremely interesting!

That is a great photo of the

BernietheTortoise Sun, 06/23/2013 - 07:23

That is a great photo of the specimen!

I did some research in a PDF

BernietheTortoise Mon, 06/24/2013 - 18:39

I did some research in a PDF on the Bonaire Banded Box Jelly (Tamoya ohboya) and I found that here is an undescribed species (nomenclaturally) that is known to exist in the Gulf of Mexico and matches up with your specimen. Quite the interesting find, didn't think they got that big either!

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