Aequorea (Suffolk, UK)

Description and Comments

One in shallows, six washed-up. Up to c.20cm bell. Dead specimens were tested under a UV light, revealing a row of perhaps 200 pointlike organs around the rim which glowed green - see picture. A dead Beroe also tested showed no luminescence.

Author

Type of organism

Other
hydrozoan

Quantity

6

Latitude

52.04

Longitude

1.46