Update about the red beauty!

In a previous blog I mentioned a beautiful red jelly fish, which we could not recognize. Then, I brought up the topic of taxonomy in order to explain the scientific process to name a new species.

Deep sea jelly fish; Atolla sp.

An update! This beauty's scientific name is Atolla sp. with a common name deep sea jelly fish. Below is short info about it from the Encyclopedia of Life.

Disk flat, dome transparent, lenticular (lens-shaped); Internal structures and exumbella (bottom side) dark red; 20-30 tentacles alternating with marginal rhopalia (sense organ); Umbella margins divided into lappets (a pair between each tentacle); Circular coronal furrow in exumbella deep; in life, one tentacles always trails elongated ("Atolla." Encyclopedia of Life, 2012).

≈ Knowing feels good:)

Goksenin Sen

Marine Educator


Reference:

Atolla (2012). In Encyclopedia of Life.  Retrieved from: http://eol.org/pages/23696/details