Pelagic invertebrates and Jellyfish

thecosome pteropod or sea butterfly, Corolla spectabilis, is a pelagic gastropod related to slugs and snails, with a foot that is modified into a pair of locomotory wings, open ocean, Hawaii ( Central Pacific Ocean )

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thecosome pteropod or sea butterfly, Corolla spectabilis, is a pelagic gastropod related to slugs and snails, with a foot that is modified into a pair of locomotory wings, open ocean, Hawaii ( Central Pacific Ocean )

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