Monday, August 24, 2020

Tailed jellies

 The last of the under-the-wharf pics:

Part sun, part deep shade. Another plumose anemone, a bunch of algae and hydroids, more tunicates, and floating jellies.

These jellies were tiny; an inch across or so. Most of the jellyfish I see around the wharfs are larger, mostly moon jellies, Aurelia labiata, or water jellies, Aequorea spp. Some of these may be water jellies; they're too small and too indistinct to be sure.

But others seem different: 

Three species of jellyfish?

One looks like a cross jellyfish, Mitrocoma cellularia; one could possibly be a red-eye medusa, Polyorchis penicillatus, and could those tailed jellies possibly be sea gooseberries?

There's always something new.

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Estas son las últimas de las fotos de las criaturas debajo del muelle.

Hay otra de las anémonas emplumadas, muchas algas e hidroides, otro grupo de tunicados. Y medusas flotando en el agua, todas muy chiquitas.

Las medusas que comunmente veo por aquí son las medusas "luna", y las "de agua". Pero son más grandes; estas miden 1 o 2 centímetros, por mucho.

Unas parecen medusas "cruzadas", una puede ser la medusa con ojos rojos (y sí, he visto estos ojitos) y tal vez, posiblemente, quizás, las que tienen las dos colas largas pueden ser Pleurobrachia bachei, que no es una medusa, sino un ctenóforo.

Siempre hay algo nuevo.



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