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Jellyfish, In The Aquarium Of The Pacific, Long Beach, California
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Rhopilema esculentum
Rhopilema esculentum, the flame jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish native to the warm temperate waters of the Pacific Ocean. It is a popular seafood in southeastern Asia.
Flame Jellyfish • Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:25:17 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0077 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Group Of Flames
A group of three flame jellyfish in near collision. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates the consumption of this jellyfish to treat arthritis, high blood pressure, asthma, burns, ulcers and other ailments.
Flame Jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum) • Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:25:40 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0082 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Jellies Hall
The hall displaying tanks of jellyfish. Notice that the overhead lights are also in the shape of jellies.
Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:46:33 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0125 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Aurelia aurita
Aurelia aurita (also called the moon jelly, moon jellyfish, common jellyfish, or saucer jelly) is a widely studied species of the genus Aurelia.
Moon Jelly (Aurelia aurita) • Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:48:04 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0129 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Video Of Jellies
A video composed of two different tanks of jellies at the Aquarium Of The Pacific.
Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Filmed: 15:48:04 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0130 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Phacellophora camtschatica
Phacellophora camtschatica, known as the fried egg jellyfish, egg-yolk jellyfish or the ecehb jellyfish is a very large jellyfish, with a bell up to 60 cm (2 ft) in diameter and sixteen clusters of up to a few dozen tentacles, each up to 6 meters (20 ft) long.
Egg Yolk Jelly (Phacellophora camtschatica) • Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:51:33 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0141 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Maxfield Parrish
Tank images of the Egg Yolk Jelly look strikingly like the clouds of artist Maxfield Parrish .
Egg Yolk Jelly (Phacellophora camtschatica) • Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:51:37 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0142 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Phacellophora camtschatica
Because the sting of this jellyfish is so weak, many small crustaceans, including larval crabs (Cancer gracilis) and Amphipoda, regularly ride on its bell and even steal food from its oral arms and tentacles.
Egg Yolk Jelly (Phacellophora camtschatica) • Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:51:44 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0143 Add a comment or report a mistake
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Phacellophora camtschatica
The Egg Yolk Jelly alternates between a benthic stage that is attached to rocks and piers that reproduces asexually and the planktonic stage that reproduces sexually in the water column; there are both males and females in the plankton.
Egg Yolk Jelly (Phacellophora camtschatica) • Aquarium Of The Pacific • 100 Aquarium Way • Long Beach California • (Date Photographed: 15:51:50 Monday 1 February 2016) • (Date Published: Saturday 13 February 2016) • © 2016 Bryan Costales #C16_0145 Add a comment or report a mistake
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