tehag - 7-12-2005 at 04:20 PM
Can anyone ID this jelly? It's about 3 inches across the tentacles.
[Edited on 7-15-2005 by tehag]
wild guess....
yankeeirishman - 7-12-2005 at 04:27 PM
moon jelly ?
Ken Bondy - 7-12-2005 at 05:51 PM
Looks like a moon jelly to me.
++Ken++
Blue
MrBillM - 7-12-2005 at 06:00 PM
These have been showing up (in small numbers) for the last two weeks in the Lagoon at Percebu. First time I've seen them in a number of years.
Blue jellies
Sharksbaja - 7-12-2005 at 06:43 PM
Served as a delicacy in Japan, these jellies common in Australia are dried and exported. Successful jelly farming is now commonplace at many marine
aquariums. Commercial farming however has not panned out. Beautiful and fascinating to watch in captivity. They mesmerize you with their pulsating
rhythms almost into a trance.
Jellyfish ID
tehag - 7-15-2005 at 03:47 PM
Asking around and Googling turns up the info that it isn't actually a jellyfish but rather a hydrozoan.
Taxonomy:
cnidaria hydrozoa chondrophora porpitadae porpita porpita
Also called porpita Pacifica
Common name blue sea star
Couldn't find anything about edibility. Seems awfully small for human consumption, but, hey, we eat shrimp, right?