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Title Date of sighting reporter Image Lat / Lng Description Type of organism Other type
Physalia… Medusas_Barcelona Alt text 37.550 / -1.170

New sighting of Physalia physalis in the Western Mediterr

Man o war
Aequorea victoria Leo 48.540 / -123.010

About 10 Aequorea seen from the Friday Harbor Labs dock i

Jellyfish
Piles worms at sea bkossy 37.480 / -122.520

I was kayaking about 3 miles SW of Pillar Pt.

Other Pile worm
Cyanea capillata Leo 48.540 / -123.010

First Lion's mane of the season for me, bell diamete

Jellyfish
Pelagia noctiluca Medusas_Barcelona 36.770 / -2.430 Jellyfish
Bolinopsis infundibulum… Leo 48.540 / -123.010

More than 100 Bolinopsis seen over about 20 minutes at th

Other Ctenophore
Clione limacina Leo 48.540 / -123.010

A few of these swimming pteropods in the surface water da

Other Mollusc: gastropod: pteropod
Lion's Mane Jelly… Jellywatcher 40.640 / -73.180

While waiting for ferry to arrive was flabbergasted at wh

Jellyfish
Portuguese Man O War Jellywatcher 27.800 / -97.080

While at the beach, we saw about six of these creatures t

Man o war Portuguese Man O War
Blue jellyfish, possibly… iSoph 48.360 / -4.530

While swimming in Brest harbour, saw several blue jellyfi

Jellyfish
two types of… Jellywatcher Alt text 20.940 / -156.690

Box Jelly
Aurelia in… Shane Anderson Alt text 35.660 / 139.770

In the early afternoon while traveling by water taxi on T

Jellyfish
Chrysaora sp in… Shane Anderson Alt text 35.660 / 139.770

In the early afternoon while traveling by water taxi on T

Jellyfish
Cannonball Jellyfish Jellywatcher 32.080 / -81.100

Cannonball and sea nettles

Jellyfish
Cyanea… Richard Alt text 49.460 / -2.530

a dozen Cyanea lamarckii washed up on the beach at Saleri

Jellyfish
Mnemiopsis leidyi in… Jellywatcher 41.040 / 29.010

Big Mnemiopsis specimens exist during May 2010

Other Ctenophore
Phacellophora… Jellywatcher 47.140 / -122.900

Two small specimens (approximate bell diameter = 7 cm) in

Jellyfish
Aequorea… Medusas_Barcelona Alt text 42.320 / 3.330 Jellyfish
Aequorea… Medusas_Barcelona Alt text 42.320 / 3.330 Jellyfish
ixtapa, GRO, Mexico Jellywatcher 17.730 / -101.870

multiple box jelly fish seen at the local ixtapa location

Jellyfish
bioluminescent algal… Jellywatcher 32.870 / -117.260

saw just off of scripps pier

Red Tide bioluminescent algal bloom
No jellies, 1 dead… dangerbarrow 30.370 / -81.400

No inverts seen, but we did find a dead porcupine puffer

Vertebrate
Jellyfish in Baynes Sound… Snaggy 49.560 / -124.860

Hundreds of Jellyfish spotted, as we paddled across to De

Jellyfish
Sea Butterflies Jellywatcher 30.380 / -86.450

There were thousands of them swimming around off the Dest

Other Pteropod
Red Tide along San Diego… Jellywatcher 32.870 / -117.260

Dense patches of red water are starting to show up more r

Red Tide