Kumusta mga kapamilya at kaibigan! My name is Skyler and I’m here to share and give you information about Rare Jellyfishes living in the world, in the ocean rather. Sit back and relax and get your popcorn, be prepared to be amazed because it can even blow your mind.
Just look how beautiful they are! Yes it’s beautiful but that doesn’t mean it can’t kill and sting you. Like they said “Don’t judge a book but its cover”, be careful!.
Flower Hat Jelly
I’m going to start with a question, do you know what a “Flower Hat Jelly” is? Have you seen it before? Well here’s the picture…
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Flower Hat Jelly is a rare species that you can only find in the West Pacific off of Southern Japan. It also has a scientific name, called “Olindias Formosus”, although it looks like a Jellyfish because of it's tentacles, but this creature is a jelly. It is rare because of it’s multi coloured tentacles trailing from a translucent, that’s why it is recognizable and interesting.
The Flower Hat Jelly also has tentacles around its rim of its bell, it can grow to 15 cm. It can live around 4 to 5 months. It eats small fish for it’s diet, it uses its tentacles to catch prey easily. No need to fear because it isn’t deadly to humans, but its sting is powerful enough to leave a rash, now that is painful. Here’s what I think, I think the Flower Hat Jelly is called Flower Hat Jelly because it looks like a hat and the tentacles made it look like a plant nor a flower.
Cauliflower Jellyfish also known as Crown Jellyfish
Here’s another one, Do you know what “Cauliflower Jellyfish” is? It sounds really healthy though, here’s a picture.
The Cauliflower Jellyfish resembles a big cauliflower. It lives around the mid-Pacific Indo-Pacific, and it is also found in Atlantic ocean off of West Africa.
It also has a scientific name called “Coronatae”.
It has a magnificent colour and it's tentacles almost has a translucent colour.
It lives in the ocean, not deep though, It can grow really large, to 1.5 feet to 1.9 feet. Sounds like dinner is ready!.
Crystal Jellyfish
Here’s the third one and it is called “Crystal Jellyfish” known as “aequorea victoria”.
It is found along the North America west-coast of the Pacific Ocean.
This Jellyfish is almost entirely transparent and colourless, sometimes it is difficult to resolve.
It has a powerful mouth that extend to it's bell margin. But have no effect on humans.
It's tentacles are almost thin just like a hair.
It looks like a gypsum gem.
The deeper it swims in the ocean, the brighter the jellyfish glows, it's almost unbelievable!.
Phyllorhiza Punctata known as White-spotted Jellyfish or the floating bell
It is native to the West Pacific from Australia to Japan, it kind of looks like the Cauliflower Jellyfish though.
It is easy to recognise because of it's large, semi-transparent, rounded bell covered with white dots, the trailing tentacles also has white spots. It grows 50 cm in diametre.
It lives in oceans and coastal water.
Although it looks like a wee bit of Cauliflower Jellyfish.
It has white-spotted dots on it's dome
Lampocteis known as Bloody-comb Jellyfish and Ctenophore known as Comb Jelly
They look different because of the bloody colour. Depending on the species, adult ctenophores range from a few millimetres to 1.5 m. It looks like a human lungs to me and people said it looks like an alien or something weird.
Chrysaora Achlyos known as Black Sea Nettle
Black Jellyfish or Sarlacc Jellyfish,
is a species or a jellyfish that can be found in the water of Pacific Ocean. Though there are reports of sightings as far sas North as British Columbia. The black sea nettle can be big, with a bell diameter potentially up to 1 metre and oral arms extending to 5 or 6 metres.
Distinctive opaque, dark purple to nearly black are the colours of this jellyfish.
Marginal sense organs are spaced around the bell margin after every set of 3 tentacles, for a total of 8.
Phacellophora camtschatica known as the fried egg jellyfish (Hmmm! Breakfast! Good with bacon)
The fried egg jellyfish is a very large jellyfish, with a bell up to 2 feet in a diametre and each tentacles are up to 6 metres. This is a cool-water jellyfish that can be found in many parts of the world’s ocean.
Because of this jellyfish's sting is so weak, many sea plankton, fishes, and small crabs regularly ride on it's bell and steals food from its tentacles and oral arms.
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Atolla jellyfish (it looks like a wee bit of UFO) the Coronate medusa
It is a deep sea-crown jelly found around the world, it is in deep red colour. It is a deep-sea jellyfish. It typically has 20 orange-red tentacles and one abnormally large tentacle (larger than the rest). When it attacks, it will launch a series of flashes, it draws predators.
Narcomedusae
It has a dome-shaped bell with thin sides, it almost have a transparents colour. It only has four tentacles which is attached above the lobed margin. It has two stomach pouches, it is use to fill the pouches with prey, it's mostly inhabitants of the open sea and and deeps waters.
There isn’t much information about this Jellyfish but I put it in here anyway because this type of jellyfish are rare and they look interesting and pretty.
Moon Jellyfish known as “aurelia aurita”
Moon Jellyfish are relative to Crystal jellyfish although it’s not as big as the Crystal Jellyfish. This jellyfish is not rare because you can find it around the ocean. This jellyfish is translucent just like the Crystal Jellyfish, it has small-thin tentacles.
This jellyfish has a flower-shaped thingy (I actually don’t know what it’s called) under its dome. It eats plankton for it's food, it glows bright under the water, I don’t know if it glows because of the sea color but in my opinion, it glows.
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Porpita Porpita known as the “blue button”
We don’t have much information about this jellyfish, I don’t know either if its rare or not.
It is found in tropical waters from California to the tropical Pacific, the Atlantic and Indian oceans. It has blue-ish (more like greenish blue) colour, probably turquoise colour. Some of it's tentacles are small and some aren’t, it has a transparent blue tentacles.
This jellyfish isn’t deadly and it doesn’t sting, but it cause skin irritation.
The hard golden brown float is round, almost flat, and about an inch wide.
It is very small, like ½ and the tentacles are under its rim.
