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Aurelia Aurita

Description and Comments

Ocean Beach, San Francisco
Along the shoreline I spotted and to pictures of 60 washed up Jellyfish (Aurelia Aurita) between Taraval and Pacheco.
The weather was overcast with an outside temperature of 53 degrees F, water temperature at 50 degrees F, West-South-West winds at 7 mph, and low tide with 2-3 ft surf: 2ft at 4 seconds.

*Also I could only upload one set of images...please email me at the below email so I can send you the other pictures. 60 total.

Author

hayleypalexander

Type of organism

Jellyfish

Quantity

11

Latitude

37.74

Longitude

-122.51

Comments

jellywatch Sun, 05/12/2013 - 09:02

Hi Hayley —thanks for uploading that composite of photos. You don't need to send them all. We just need some representative ones to figure out what you are seeing.. In this case, it looks like Scrippsia, a hydromedusa, and not Aurelia. Check out the other recent sightings for some other pix... Thanks very much!