Gooseberries on Santa Cruz, CA beach?

Description and Comments

Near low tide last Thursday on 26th Ave beach in Santa Cruz, I saw blobs of transparent jelly broken up forming very partial windrows on the beach (size, biggest pieces ~6 cm). I thought they might be colorless velella velella, but they didn't have any blue. Could these be cat-eye or gooseberry remains? There were none the next day.

Author

Jellywatcher (not verified)

Type of organism

Jellyfish

Quantity

11

Latitude

36.96

Longitude

-122.00

Comments

jellywatch Mon, 04/23/2012 - 23:13

6 cm is a bit large to be comb-jelly pieces. Velella take a long time to bleach, and they turn papery white, not clear.
May be pieces of Polyorchis or some other hydromedusa?