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Title | Date of sighting | reporter | Image | Lat / Lng | Description | Type of organism | Other type |
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Kailua… | Jellywatcher | 21.410 / -157.740 | Two small PMoW drying at high water mark found at Kailua |
Man o war | Physalia | ||
Euplokamis… | Leo | 48.540 / -123.010 | About 15 of these normally deepwater cydippid ctenophores |
Other | Ctenophore | ||
Another jelly… | Waterlog | ![]() |
7.290 / 134.500 | Thysanostoma flagellatum sighted at Lukes Reef, Palau. |
Jellyfish | ||
Stung in… | Jellywatcher | 1.390 / 103.990 | During first leg of swim event in triathlon, got stung. |
Jellyfish | |||
Thysanostoma… | Shane Anderson | ![]() |
7.290 / 134.500 | On 04/05/2010 while SCUBA diving I observed this one sol |
Jellyfish | ||
Physalia in the… | beroe | 19.350 / -81.390 | From a news report of "several" sightings |
Man o war | Physalia | ||
Pleurobrachia… | Leo | 48.540 / -123.010 | 122 Pleurobrachia bachei, cydippid ctenophores, seen over |
Other | Ctenophore | ||
Small Velella… | Medusas_Barcelona | 39.890 / 0.670 | hundred of very small (around 3 or 4 mm) Velella velella |
Velella | Velella | ||
Velella velella… | rngrsarah | 37.450 / -122.460 | by the wind sailors |
Velella | Velella | ||
ctenophores in… | Jellywatcher | 48.350 / -4.700 | Every few meters you could find a ctenophore stranded by |
Other | ctenophores | ||
a little… | mucktopus | -8.810 / 115.100 | small amounts of plastic, low /falling tide 5-6 pm |
Plastic | |||
Kailua Beach… | vmfranck | 21.410 / -157.740 | man o' war (21), and bubble snails that eat them (2) |
Man o war | Physalia | ||
Unusual… | alison | ![]() |
7.300 / 134.490 | We saw this Leucothea-like ctenophore in one patch of col |
Other | Ctenophore | |
plastic | mucktopus | -8.660 / 115.130 | about 50 pieces of plastic 10-15 cm largest dimension |
Plastic | |||
Lion in the… | apoflav | 70.500 / -146.420 | A Cyanea (Lion's mane) jelly was caught in a net sam |
Jellyfish | |||
Bunch of… | Eyom | 10.410 / 119.180 | My high school batch mates and I went on a 2-day outing i |
Jellyfish | |||
… | Jellywatcher | 30.390 / -86.500 | yellow/green glow with each step on the beach...sometimes |
Red Tide | |||
zero | mucktopus | -8.660 / 115.130 | nothing to report in surf, rising tide, 5-6:30 pm |
Clean sea | |||
Physalia in… | beroe | 10.370 / -61.010 | Reported "hundreds" washing up along the easter |
Man o war | Physalia | ||
Pelagia off… | MEDUSOL | ![]() |
43.180 / 6.600 | Pelagia noctiluca |
Jellyfish | ||
syllid worm… | Leo | 48.540 / -123.010 | 21 variously-colored worms, mostly cream, tan or orangish |
Other | polychaete worm | ||
Large jellyfish… | Jellywatcher | ![]() |
26.720 / -82.270 | Washed up on shore while fishing near Port Charlotte, Flo |
Jellyfish | ||
Jellyfish in… | openhouse | 37.830 / -122.420 | Internal branches where the tentacles draped down. |
Jellyfish | |||
Rhopilema Bloom… | serdar | 36.490 / 34.380 | Rhopilema novadica is an invasive species in the mediterr |
Jellyfish | |||
dead comorant… | Jellywatcher | 36.960 / -121.980 | There was a dead cormorant at the Moran Lake County Park |
Other | Bird |