Pelagic invertebrates and Jellyfish - diverdave

Invertebrates

Pelagic invertebrates and Jellyfish

Small commensal fish takes refuge in crown jellyfish, Netrostoma setouchina, Shark Reef, Beqa Passage, Fiji, South Pacific Ocean

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Small commensal fish takes refuge in crown jellyfish, Netrostoma setouchina, Shark Reef, Beqa Passage, Fiji, South Pacific Ocean

jellyfish jelly Cnidaria Cnidarian sea life ocean life marine life Scyphozoa scyphozoan crown jellyfish Netrostoma setouchina Hawaii David Kearnes Dave Kearnes commensalism commensal symbiosis injff 0003

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

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