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Thursday 6th May 2004, 22:48
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I'm sure its not a Comb Jelly - doesn't look like anything I see on this side of the Atlantic... will have a quick look for you tomorrow.
I'm confused that I can only see a bell - no tentacles..... perhaps its been munched by a Sunfish or something! Reminds me most of a compass jelly (Chrysaora)- but it looks thicker in the bell than the spp. we get here.. Imagine this a bit nibbled! http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/archdat.../Ccolorata.JPG
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Thursday 6th May 2004, 22:56
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We had a few of those wash up on beaches. One time, one washed up right next to my feet! At first, I thought it was a terrorist attack (I was young...), and later realized that it was a jelly!
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Friday 7th May 2004, 00:55
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The reason I ask if it's a jellyfish (cnidarian) or a comb jelly (ctenophore) is because I remember the locals picking them up out of the water and throwing them at each other without getting stung.
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Friday 7th May 2004, 01:23
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Were these fresh water Jelly's or sea Jelly's?
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Friday 7th May 2004, 02:36
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Marine? Marine is any place with water!!!!
Fresh Water or Salt??? I'd say freshwater, judging from lassa8's location...
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Friday 7th May 2004, 02:53
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gthang- the definition of marine is: Of or relating to the sea, and then definition of sea is: a continuous body of salt water.
This organism was was washed up on the seashore on the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama. |
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Friday 7th May 2004, 03:12
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D'oh!
Well, then, I'll need the dictionary next time!! Sorry...
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Friday 7th May 2004, 03:28
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A little difficult to tell from the photos, but they may well be egg masses of sand snails. Are they a thick, solid jelly-like substance? Most sea-jellies when they wash ashore don't keep their shape too well, but these look to be maintaining their structure, which points to them being an egg-mass.
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Friday 7th May 2004, 03:53
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Having had bad experiences with jellies (thimble jellies stung my lip and eyelid while in the Bahamas) I wasn't about to touch this thing with my hands...though when I flipped it with some driftwood (to get the top down view) it certainly felt somewhat solid.
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Friday 7th May 2004, 04:45
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Hi Mike and others
I did think of egg masses when I first saw the photos but I'm not sure. We get similar egg masses from sand snails (Naticidae - Polinices ?) here in Queensland but they are usually "C-shaped" Pete
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Wouldn't egg masses be attached by the parents to a rock or something to prevent this???
Since this is a jelly (or not...) it's probably going to be extremely hard to ID unless it was in water.
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