Can You Identity This Creature?

[shawndear]

Originally Posted by Yes maybe

This App is excellent.
This list of life threatening jellies is disturbing long..
And I didnt know theres Irukandji in the Caribbean!

Nor did I. Where do you get your information from. Irukandji Syndrome does not need to be cause by Irukandji, it is simply the symptoms name. Cant find any info of this deadly box jelly fish being in the Caribbean!

[Yes maybe]

Information from the app.

[JPA Cate]

Theway,

There are some plain, clear jellyfish, common in that area, that do not have tentacles, at least as adults. Can you tell from your microscopic examination, if there would normally be more tentacles on your sample? 4 or more, and it's in the box jelly family. Getting the app going is probably the best way to go.

[theway]

Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

Do yourself a favour and install The Jellyfish App (for Android, see: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...lyfishapp.free ; or browse https://thejellyfishapp.com/ for that other operating system).



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Thanks.
I got the app and it looks like they are Sea Sparkles... the kind that illuminate.

[JPA Cate]

Cool.

Good on ya.

Ann

[theway]

I’ll try to have another look to find out which ones I saw in the water that appeared to have two tentacles. But it could be one of several small simple clear ones from the app.

[billgewater]

Originally Posted by fatherchronica

That was nice Paulajayne, The Jabberwokey was one of two poems I ever memorized in it's entirety. The other one goes " oh pointy bird, oh pointy pointy, upon my head annointy nointy" Steve Martin.

Coffs Harbour? Banana central. Gorgeous place. One of the few yachty stop off points on the Beautizone coast of NSW. Great surfing beaches.
Lewis Carrol (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) also must have been writing for sailors as he once opined “If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.” A bit reminiscent of the stoic Seneca who said it all for sailors: “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable.”
Sit in your cockpit after a few beers and friend and discuss the differences in meaning and impact.
Dodgson was a professional mathematician writing on syllogisms (used by IQ assessors for tertiary entrance) and Jabberwocky is probably the best known bit of English poetry besides “Humpty Dumpty”. The other really famous piece of English poetry is the Fitzgerald translation of The Rubyait of Omah Kyam. “ The moving finger writes and having writ ….”. He was a Persian tent maker and a practicing mathematician who wrote on algebra (without symbols) and solved quadratics and cubics using geometry about a thousand years before Descartes. “Rubyait” means “four line verse”. He also contributed to our modern calendar structure.
The general theme of his Rubyait is that you should set about enjoying life and stop being a curmudgeon.
Neither though, made any well known contribution to the study of jelly fish, so how did we get to this?
More topically, recent studies have shown the southward movement of the dreaded Irukandji associated with the warming of the NSW coastal waters. What climate change?
Is this the “sting in the tale”.

[Seas the Day]

Originally Posted by theway

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It looks to be a small jelly of some sort. Found in Coffs Harbour Australia. They seem to have two little tentacles.

I’m pretty sure I got a little sting on my neck. My guess is their not the Irukandji because I’d probably be in the hospital today.

The probability of Iukandji in Coffs is extremely low as it is not warm enough. They were recently reported moving south to Harvey Bay so still a long way to go to Coffs. What you have there seem to be the same size as Irukandji, about the size of a fingernail. Symptoms of Irukanji turn up around 30 minutes after the sting and are not nice so I think you are safe.

[ALAIN97133]

Originally Posted by theway

Attachment 162107It looks to be a small jelly of some sort. Found in Coffs Harbour Australia. They seem to have two little tentacles. I noticed them yesterday while under the boat. I’m pretty sure I got a little sting on my neck. My guess is their not the Irukandji because I’d probably be in the hospital today.

Hi! I recognize them: They're Trump's balls. He lost them in a Wollongong brothel, south of Sidney & they end up in the ocean when the cleaning guy flushed the toilet...

[David M]

Ctenophore. There are hundreds of different species. We catch them pretty frequently on the SF Bay and Delta when doing net trolls.

[Rorzech]

I hope they're not baby box jellyfish, the most deadly toxin on the planet.
Well maybe not the whole planet , but pretty close.

[iSaint]

Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

Do yourself a favour and install The Jellyfish App (for Android, see: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...lyfishapp.free ; or browse https://thejellyfishapp.com/ for that other operating system).

This is the coolest thing ever.

[Rorzech]

The Lion fish never used to be in the Caribbean either , but now thrives there.

[Don C L]

This might help:
https://mymykerikeri.wordpress.com/2...r-matauri-bay/

Sea gooseberries. Ctenophore. Not even sea jelly! aka jellyfish

[HopCar]

Jellyfish aquariums are a thing now. A hospital near my home has a huge one with about a dozen or more jellies about 6 to 8 inches each. They are weirdly calming to watch.