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-- w just wondering though, do those tentacles sting folks who might be swimming where they are occurring? Thank you Gayle MacLean Dartmouth ---- Tom & Terri <terri.crane@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Paul and All > > I've always heard and refer to them as "Grape Jellies". They resemble a skinned grape was the reason I was told as a inquisitive child ant to me it made since. Thus the name stuck. Most of the fishing community that I know in eastern NS and eastern PEI all have the same name for the collective group of these cold water Jelly Fish. > > Tom Kavanaugh > > Canso > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James W. Wolford > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 8:12 PM > Subject: [NatureNS] re sea gooseberry -- was ??Arctic Comb Jelly > > > Paul and all, I think your nice photo is of what most Maritimers call "sea gooseberries" -- you were correct in calling it a comb jelly (Ctenophora phylum), but the Latinized name, I think, is still Pleurobrachia pileus. > > > Mertensia ovum is a new name for Beroe ovum, which is a comb jelly, all right, but is a different one from our common "sea gooseberry"; also Paul's site did not mention phylum Ctenophora for comb jellies, which are distant cousins of jellyfish, sea anemones, & corals). > > > I Googled "sea gooseberry" and got: > > > Sea Gooseberry - Pleurobrachia pileus - Seawater.no > > www.seawater.no/fauna/ctenophora/pileus.html - Cached > 16 Mar 2013 ... Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Ctenophora; Class: Tentaculata; Order: Cydippida; Family: Pleurobrachiidae; Scientific name: Pleurobrachia ... > > > Cheers from Jim, still in B.C. but on my way home..... > --------------------------- > > > On 8-May-13, at 7:12 PM, Paul L wrote: > > > Saw many Arctic Comb Jelly's today at the Bedford waterfront, they are about 2-4cm and looked bioluminescent (or cilia refracted the sun?). > > Not sure of the identification, here's a decent close up photo of a few of them: > http://www.wildlifesightings.net/temp/ArcticCombJellyAquatic.html > > > > Paul Lindgreen > Wildlife Sightings http://www.WildlifeSightings.net > Contribute nature sightings and be part of citizen science > >
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