White Jelly

Description and Comments

This jellyfish I photographed in the Sulu Sea, Philippines at around 20 meters depth. It was about 25cm wide and had only very short tentacles.
Species name is appreciated. Thanks.

Author

TreasureGuard

Type of organism

Jellyfish

Quantity

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 18:00

Latitude

8.89

Longitude

119.94

Condition

Alive

Comments

I have never seen this

BernietheTortoise Tue, 04/14/2015 - 05:11

I have never seen this species before. I will refer to some colleagues and ask for their opinion.

My colleague suggested it may

BernietheTortoise Wed, 04/15/2015 - 19:08

My colleague suggested it may be a species of Cyanea (with tentacles retracted). Otherwise, I am still undecided. Thanks for the report and nice picture, though!

Yes, Cyanea, but undetermined

jellywatch Fri, 04/17/2015 - 07:07

Yes, Cyanea, but undetermined on species.

I still can't even make a

BernietheTortoise Fri, 04/17/2015 - 11:09

I still can't even make a guess on what species. Half of Cyanea species are essentially nominative. I'll have to look into it further.

According to Rob Condon, who

jellywatch Wed, 04/22/2015 - 15:01

According to Rob Condon, who studied these for his dissertation, this is Cyanea nozakii. Nice pictures!

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