Shedd Aquarium: Special Exhibit: The Jellies
From the Shedd Aquarium website.. click here…
Sea jellies have thrived in the oceans for 500 million years, and they’ve done it without blood, bones, or brains. What these delicate pockets of protoplasm—jellies are 95 percent water!—do have venomous stinging cells that let them take on sturdier predators and prey.
Jellies range in size from mere drops that could float in a contact lens to 100-foot behemoths. Some jellies are carried passively on currents for thousands of miles, others follow the sun’s movement from east to west, and some bounce like rubber balls. Still others pulse in place, like seafloor flowers. A few have internal algae that manufacture food for them, all capture planktonic prey, and many eat other jellies.
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JELLIES
In the order in which they appear in the video
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- Northeast Pacific sea nettle [Chrysaora fuscescens]
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- Lion’s mane jelly [Cyanea capillata]
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- Japanese sea nettle [Chrysaora pacifica]
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- Upside down jelly [Cassiopea sp]
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- Atlantic sea nettle [Chrysaora quinquecirrha]
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- Black sea nettle [Chrysaora achlyos]
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- Comb jelly [Mnemiopsis leidyi]
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- Flower hat jelly [Olindias sp.]
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- Edible Jelly [Rhopilema esculentum]
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- Spotted lagoon jelly [Mastigias papua]
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- Umbrella jelly [Eutonina indicans]
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- Blue blubber jelly [Catostylus mosaicus]
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