World Jellyfish Day

[Ann]

Apparently today is "World Jellyfish Day" so here are a few photographs of the genus:









In honour of this day, do add any jellyfish photos you may have!

[Øivind Tøien]

Here are two of the same medusa:

[Øivind Tøien]

And a comb jellyfish:

[Øivind Tøien]

And the more regular Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita):

[fish_shooter]

The term jellyfish does not correspond to a biological "unit" so are not in a genus. So far two phyla have been shown, Cnidaria and Ctenophora, so here is a third, a member of the Phylum Chordata (which includes the vertebrates so our cousins), salps shot in Hawaii. There are a few Arthropoda getting a ride on them as well.

[ARTUROARTISTA]

It looks like an alien invasion.

[Akira]

Here's my take.

[Anirban Halder]

This is such a beautiful thread. Each photos are like from different planet.

[Birna Rørslett]

I browsed the archive and found a few jellyfish images. They are not my favourite creatures, so not many pictures were present.

[Birna Rørslett]

A few more.

[Birna Rørslett]

My son did feel the presence of that one

[Akira]

My son did feel the presence of that one

Ouch!

[Ann]

I had no idea that there were so many jellies with such gorgeous colours as some of these.

Thank you for adding their portraits to this thread.

[Frank Fremerey]

Apparently today is "World Jellyfish Day" so here are a few photographs of the genus:

In honour of this day, do add any jellyfish photos you may have!

My daughter (15) really enjoys this thread very much!!!

[Øivind Tøien]

Not all Jellyfish float free, stalked jellyfish (possibly Lucernaria quadricornis), old film scan from Northern Norway: