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Jellyfish

Cassiopea

Habitat:

This particular one was photographed at the Maui Aquarium. Commonly found in shallow mangrove swamps, mudflats, and turtle grass flats in Florida and various other similar environments around the world, where it lives usually upside-down on the bottom.

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2 Comments

NayNay
NayNay 12 years ago

Thanks for the ID :-)

LauraMaria
LauraMaria 12 years ago

Ah, this is from the Cassiopeia sp.! It's also called the upside down jellyfish :) It gets that way because it has symbiotic algae inside it that calcify and make a shell, which makes the jellyfish top heavy so it falls over and stays that way! They're amazing things, kind of live more like sea anemones!

NayNay
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NayNay

Hawaii, USA

Spotted on Oct 10, 2010
Submitted on May 10, 2011

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