CRYSTAL JELLYFISH
· A bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish.
· Almost entirely transparent and colorless.
· Possess a highly contractile mouth and manubrium at the center of up to 100 radial canals that extend to the bell margin.
· The bell margin is surrounded by uneven tentacles, up to 150 of them in fully-grown specimens.
· The tentacles possess nematocysts, stinging cells, which aid in capturing prey, although they have no effect on humans.
· Typically feed on soft-bodied organisms, but the diet may also include some crustacean zooplankton such as copepods, crab zoëals, barnacle nauplii & other larval planktonic organisms.
· Predators are the Lion’s Mane Jelly, as well as ctenophores, siphonophora and other hydromedusae. There are also documented cases of cannibalism.
· Almost entirely transparent and colorless.
· Possess a highly contractile mouth and manubrium at the center of up to 100 radial canals that extend to the bell margin.
· The bell margin is surrounded by uneven tentacles, up to 150 of them in fully-grown specimens.
· The tentacles possess nematocysts, stinging cells, which aid in capturing prey, although they have no effect on humans.
· Typically feed on soft-bodied organisms, but the diet may also include some crustacean zooplankton such as copepods, crab zoëals, barnacle nauplii & other larval planktonic organisms.
· Predators are the Lion’s Mane Jelly, as well as ctenophores, siphonophora and other hydromedusae. There are also documented cases of cannibalism.