Pelagic invertebrates and Jellyfish

$lobate ctenophore or comb jelly, Leucothea pulchra, drifting in open ocean at night, the colors are not produced by this invertebrate as in bioluminescence but are actually ambient light that is being scattered or diffracted from the eight rows of locomotory comb plates running the length of the creature.<br /> open ocean, Hawaii ( Central Pacific Ocean )$

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lobate ctenophore or comb jelly, Leucothea pulchra, drifting in open ocean at night, the colors are not produced by this invertebrate as in bioluminescence but are actually ambient light that is being scattered or diffracted from the eight rows of locomotory comb plates running the length of the creature.
open ocean, Hawaii ( Central Pacific Ocean )

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