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| Title | Date of sighting | reporter | Image | Lat / Lng | Description | Type of organism | Other type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Octopus… | Elizabeth Eubanks | 
|
36.750 / -121.930 | Octopus rubescens - Red Octopus collected on our 115m tra |
Other | Octopus | |
| Many Salpa… | drpetervas | 
|
37.970 / 22.980 | Other | Salpa | ||
| Wrightsville Beach NC | Jellywatcher | 34.200 / -77.800 | Multiple cannonball jellyfish along shore waters |
Other | Cannonball | ||
| Mnemiopsis… | swimmingidiots | -33.820 / 151.250 | I spotted a fascinating comb jelly about 350m offshore at |
Other | Comb jelly | ||
| Seacliff State… | drthom | 
|
36.970 / -121.910 | Rare sighting: two starfish on the sand at -1 ft low tide |
Other | Starfish | |
| Spanish shawl nudibranch… | Kelseyreames | 33.530 / -117.770 | Other | Mollusca | |||
| Dosima fascicularis (… | Jellywatcher | 32.870 / -117.250 | Found attached to plastic label, beached at edge of surf |
Other | Pelagic barnacle | ||
| Egg Case? | christine | 
|
36.540 / -121.930 | At first they look like jelly pieces but they are hollow |
Other | Pteropod | |
| Liriope… | Gogreenman | 
|
34.720 / -76.690 | Found this small Hydromedusa amongst some floating reeds. |
Other | Hydromedusa | |
| Hundreds of… | Jellywatcher | 36.000 / -122.000 | Was fishing just after high tide starting seeing Hundreds |
Other | Ctenophores "Comb Jellys" | ||
| Mnemiopsis | mb_decker | 41.280 / -72.930 | present with Cyanea at same location. |
Other | ctenophore | ||
| Pyrosomes in… | beroe | 33.590 / -117.870 | According to news reports: about 100 pyrosomes washed up |
Other | Pyrosome | ||
| Pteropod… | beroe | 
|
36.620 / -121.850 | Other | Pteropod | ||
| stung bad… | Jellywatcher | 20.970 / -156.680 | snorkeling. Suddenly both arms and chin. |
Other | box jelly | ||
| Pleurobrachia… | jsones | 
|
38.310 / -123.050 | Dense concentrations of Sea Gooseberries (Pleurobrachia b |
Other | ctenophore | |
| Ray Donagh | Jellywatcher | 53.760 / -6.250 | Large number jellyfish sighted on the beach approximately |
Other | |||
| Hormiphora in… | beroe | 
|
36.620 / -121.850 | Several among the sea glass pieces |
Other | Ctenophore | |
| Boston harbor… | Jellywatcher | 
|
42.360 / -71.050 | Other | |||
| Lots of… | beroe | 36.710 / -122.020 | Many Mitrocoma and Pyrosomes in Monterey Bay |
Other | Pyrosome | ||
| Comb Jellies… | Jellywatcher | 39.000 / -76.480 | Lots of small comb jellies, about the size of the palm of |
Other | Comb Jelly | ||
| Canal in… | Jellywatcher | 40.700 / -73.240 | I just spotted today April 13 what looked like a jelly fi |
Other | not sure whay type | ||
| Santa Barbara… | Miramar ragamuffin | 34.420 / -119.610 | hydromedusa -- either Polyorchis or Scrippsia or both. |
Other | hydromedusa | ||
| Mnemiopsis Beroe and… | mobile_jellywatcher | 26.710 / -80.040 | Peak outgoing high tide, within sargassum seaweed. |
Other | Ctenophore | ||
| Pleurobrachia… | Nomeus | 
|
52.770 / 1.610 | Quite a few Sea Gooseberries washed-up on Sea Palling Bea |
Other | Ctenophore | |
| Thalia… | Alex Damian | 
|
41.380 / 2.200 | Strip of gelatinous salplings (blastozooids) from broken |
Other | Salps |