[NatureNS] re sea gooseberry -- was ??Arctic Comb Jelly

Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 9:43:11 -0300
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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
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>   ----- 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:
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>   Sea Gooseberry - Pleurobrachia pileus - Seawater.no
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>   www.seawater.no/fauna/ctenophora/pileus.html - Cached
>   16 Mar 2013 ... Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Ctenophora; Class: Tentaculata; Order: Cydippida; Family: Pleurobrachiidae; Scientific name: Pleurobrachia ...
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> 
>   Cheers from Jim, still in B.C. but on my way home.....
>   ---------------------------
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>   On 8-May-13, at 7:12 PM, Paul L wrote:
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>     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
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> 
>     Paul Lindgreen
>     Wildlife Sightings http://www.WildlifeSightings.net
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