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Star fruit shaped jelly fish like thing?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:50 pm
by seattlepaul1975
Hoping for some assistance. My wife and I were diving this weekend at the north wall. She saw a critter that and I quote "was floating around and looked like a translucent star fruit shaped jelly fish thing".
Any ideas? We didn't get pics as we were on our 7th dive only :-)
Thanks!!
Re: Star fruit shaped jelly fish like thing?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:23 pm
by LCF
How big was it? Did it look something like this:
jellieszone.com has a lot of photographs and information about these pelagic critters.
Re: Star fruit shaped jelly fish like thing?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:01 pm
by seattlepaul1975
@lcf. Thanks! That is it!
Re: Star fruit shaped jelly fish like thing?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:44 am
by LCF
http://jellieszone.com/bolinopsis.htm
You're very welcome! The pelagic jellies fascinate me, and one of my (probably rather hopeless) goals is to get good photographs of them.
Another good place to see some great jelly photos and learn about them is many of the threads posted by Merry on ScubaBoard. She's an amazing photographer for these kinds of animals, and writes little educational pieces about them, too.