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| Title | Date of sighting | reporter | Image | Lat / Lng | Description | Type of organism | Other type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead mola off Monterey… | Jellywatcher | 36.600 / -121.880 | Dead mola washed ashore | Mola | |||
| Dead Mola in monterey | jellyhunter | 36.640 / -121.920 | Associated with sea nettle bloom: Lots of small Mola mola we | Mola | |||
| Young mola in breakwater… | jellywatch | 
|
36.610 / -121.890 | Dozens reported on local news | Mola | ||
| Sunfish in Laguna Beach… | cshjimi | 33.540 / -117.800 | Five seen off Laguna | Mola | |||
| Mola during blue-water… | beroe | 
|
36.310 / -123.050 | Visited during blue-water dive | Mola | ||
| Baby mola mola off… | beroe | 
|
19.610 / -156.110 | Baby caught in net tow. | Mola | ||
| Mola offshore | beroe | 
|
36.590 / -122.560 | Mola fly-by on blue-water scuba dive | Mola | ||
| Molas and salp during… | beroe | 
|
36.700 / -122.110 | Several Mola mola visiting during a scuba dive | Mola | ||
| Ctenophores in the… | Jellywatcher | 38.930 / -76.460 | ping-pong ball sized comb jellies washing up on the beach |
Other | |||
| Sting ray found on beach… | mobile_jellywatcher | 
|
32.780 / -117.250 | Other | Turtle | ||
| Comb Jellies (?) Salem… | Jellywatcher | 
|
42.510 / -70.890 | Saw dozens of baseball/golfball-sized jellies. |
Other | Comb Jellies?? | |
| Dead Birds | drthom | 
|
36.800 / -121.790 | Appear to be common murre's |
Other | Bird | |
| Turtle | mobile_jellywatcher | 35.520 / 24.000 | Other | Turtle | |||
| Salps in South Indian… | Jellywatcher | -39.730 / 44.500 | We sailed through an area over a mile long covered with l |
Other | Salps | ||
| Thetys vagina | kraskoff | 
|
36.640 / -121.930 | Single solitary salp found in intertidal. |
Other | Salp | |
| Pyrosome in the South of… | Jellywatcher | 
|
38.360 / -28.420 | Red Pyrosome about 1m long, floating at the surface |
Other | Pyrosome | |
| Tiny crabs | MobileAnonymous | 
|
40.970 / -73.060 | Little crab hatchlings over 1,000 of them size of finger |
Other | Crab | |
| Tuna crabs, 10s of 1000s… | Cneoridium | 
|
32.760 / -117.250 | Drifting in as the El Niño warming occurs offshore. |
Other | Pelagic red tuna crabs | |
| Ctenophores offshore | beroe | 
|
35.950 / -123.970 | Lots of salps, Leucothea, Nanomia, Beroe forskalii, etc, |
Other | Comb jellies | |
| Paxos, Ionian islands,… | Jellywatcher | 39.140 / 20.270 | Stung by a spotted jellyfish (either white or purple). |
Other | Pelagia noctiluca Or Phyllorhiza punctata | ||
| Dozens of Ochre stars.… | kraskoff | 
|
36.610 / -121.890 | Along Coast Guard jetty. |
Other | Sea stars | |
| Bathocyroe in Monterey… | beroe | 
|
36.700 / -122.030 | And other organisms: Pyrosomes were abundant. |
Other | Ctenophora | |
| Unknown Ctenophore-… | cnatsphysalia | 18.170 / -65.740 | found stranded at the estuary mouth. |
Other | Ctenophore | ||
| Salps, etc off Monterey… | beroe | 36.500 / -122.500 | On a blue water dive about 20 miles west of Monterey (map |
Other | Salps, etc | ||
| Spotted Stingray | Jellywatcher | 32.960 / -117.270 | My brother and his friend were out surfing and boogie boa |
Other | stingray |