This species of jelly was seen throughout the dive and during the 500 meter water column transect of Dive 15 for the Windows to the Deep 2018 expedition, NOAA Ocean Exploration
O Jelly Fish
Dancing in the night
Their tentacles long and sheer……
Beauty in the deep
~by Molly Cooper
This beautiful, big medusa, seen during Dive 15 of the expedition, belongs to the genus Cyanea, which is a group of scyphozoan jellyfishes well-known for their tendency to “bloom” and occur in large numbers in surface waters. They can also be a major food item for leatherback turtles. For many years it was thought that there were only a few, mostly cosmopolitan species, but we now know that many morphotypes are actually valid species in their own right.
~NOAA Ocean Explorer
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