#it reminds me more of the sea nettles that are found around parts of Africa but I haven't done enough research on them to be 100% sure

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Jellyfish identification reddit my beloved (<- and JellyfishWarehouse my beloved)

#I'm honestly not the best at differentiating between different species but it's ok :) #tbh i'm not 100% sure that the jellyfish was a chrysaora pacifica bc there's usually some reddish pigment in there #but #it's the closest one we've got and the most popular ones kept in aquariums #someone else mentioned the chrysaora quinqincirreha(?) and that seems like a likely option #though usually it is ghostly white and doesn't have the same striking stripes that the image does #it reminds me more of the sea nettles that are found around parts of Africa but I haven't done enough research on them to be 100% sure #chrysaora pseudocelata is such a funny name to me tho #um #anyways I should rly learn how to differentiate octants in a jellyfish #because that's like the number 1 way to differentiate between species #they are radially symmetrical so they have 8 parts #number of tentacles is surprisingly important too #the chrysaora pacifica (japanese sea nettle) has 40 tentacles while the chrysaora melanaster (northern sea nettle) has 24 #the difference is also pretty staggering with the closely related chrysaora achlyos and chrysaora colorata (black sea nettle and purple str- #-iped sea nettle respectively). can't remember which one has more but my bet is on the c. achlyos #mun rambles #jellyfish #chrysaora pacifica