Anthoathecata Cornelius 1992

porifera

Category hierarchy: Animals | CnidariansDescription: By-the-wind sailor jellyfish washed onto a sandy beach as well as shells and clumps of Sargassum seaweed.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.722254740000000e+001; Longitude: -8.018115670000000e+001

Hydropolyp, Ectopleura larynx

Eumedusa birulai (Linko, 1913)

In this closeup view the red spots at the ocelli, the pendant gonads, the long manubrium can be clearly seen. The lateral diverticula are also visible on several radial canals.

Hydractinia laevispina growing as an extension to a small gastropod shell inhabited by the hermit crab Labidochirus splendescens. Collected from 60-100 m depth in the San Juan Channel, July 2010. The shell is to the bottom right and the extension which has grown beyond the shell is to the upper left. Total colony width about 2 cm. (Photo by: Dave Cowles )

porifera

Category hierarchy: Animals | CnidariansDescription: By-the-wind sailor jellyfish washed onto a sandy beach.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.722254740000000e+001; Longitude: -8.018115670000000e+001

Hydropolyp, Ectopleura larynx

Sarsia princeps (Haeckel, 1879)

This freely swimming individual has its tentacles extended out farther than the one above does. Photo by Dave Cowles, July 2008

Porifera

Porifera

Category hierarchy: Animals | CnidariansDescription: By-the-wind sailor jellyfish washed onto a sandy beach as well as shells and clumps of Sargassum seaweed.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.722254740000000e+001; Longitude: -8.018115670000000e+001

Hydropolyp, Ectopleura larynx

Sarsia tubulosa (M. Sars, 1835)

Another individual, photographed 2012. Note the long, dangling gonads inside the bell.

Zoanthidae

Hydropolyp, Ectopleura larynx close up

Sarsia tubulosa (M. Sars, 1835)

This individual, captured off Sares Head in August 2014, is much greener than the other individuals shown. I am not certain if the green is an intrinsic color or if it comes from algae living on the exumbrella. Bell diameter is about 4 cm.