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Sea walnut

Mnemiopsis leidyi

Habitat:

Aegean Sea

1 Species ID Suggestions

Sea walnut
Mnemiopsis leidyi Mnemiopsis


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19 Comments

Marek Koszorek
Marek Koszorek 9 years ago

Thank you all for your comments :)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Fantastic shot and creature. Congratulations Marek. I like your clean website also.

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 10 years ago

Spectacular creature and photo!

Reza Hashemizadeh
Reza Hashemizadeh 10 years ago

Congratulations Marek, on a wonderful SotD !

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 10 years ago

Cool!

Marek Koszorek
Marek Koszorek 10 years ago

Thanks Everyone, I'm very happy :)

Carol Snow Milne
Carol Snow Milne 10 years ago

I have never heard of such a magnificent creature. Congratulations on SOTD! WOW! I love this.

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 10 years ago

Congratulations Marek. Very unusual find.

Beautiful capture MarekKoszorek,amazing creature,congrats on the SOTD and thanks for sharing

Josh Asel
Josh Asel 10 years ago

Gorgeous.

Pedro Beirão
Pedro Beirão 10 years ago

Hehe congrats on the SOTD its truly a beautiful animal. Great spotting!

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

Congratulations Marek, what a lovely alien creature and apparently a terrible pest. Pedro, what a nice link you gave us!

VivBraznell
VivBraznell 10 years ago

Wow! congratulations on the SOTD Marek

Arya
Arya 10 years ago

That is beautiful, nice shot.

KarenL
KarenL 10 years ago

Congratulations Marek, your fabulous sea walnut is Spotting of the Day!

The sea walnut is a species of ctenophore that consumes crustaceans, plankton, fish larvae; and sometimes smaller individuals of its own kind.

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Pedro Beirão
Pedro Beirão 10 years ago

Here is a link that helped me with the ID of this one :)
http://www.perseus-net.eu/en/species_of_...

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 10 years ago

Very beautiful!!!

Pedro Beirão
Pedro Beirão 10 years ago

Nice one it's beautiful! probably a Scyphozoa but I'm not sure xD

LuckyLogan
LuckyLogan 10 years ago

Beautiful! What is it?

Marek Koszorek
Spotted by
Marek Koszorek

Sani, Greece

Spotted on May 20, 2013
Submitted on Nov 24, 2013

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