Today’s Gabriola jellyfish
Here’s one of the jellyfish I see around Gabriola quite a bit. It’s a clear jellyfish, with four pink sections inside. Last year I showed you the same kind of jellyfish floating in a tide pool at Whalebone.
One of these days maybe I’ll figure out what it’s called.
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3 Responses to “Today’s Gabriola jellyfish”
Michael Mehta on 10 Aug 2010 at 10:10 pm #
I believe that this might be a common variety known as the Moon Jellyfish.
Andrea on 11 Aug 2010 at 4:28 am #
Yes, Moon jelly would be my first guess as well. There are some decent photos and info about the life of Moon jellies at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_aurita
Gabriolan on 11 Aug 2010 at 11:10 pm #
Thanks, Michael and Andrea! Much appreciated.
Thanks also to Cheryl, who commented last June that the jellyfish I saw in the tidal pool could be a moon jellyfish.
Between the three of you, I’m now confident that I know what this jellyfish is.