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Name this Jellyfish?

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Created by Cockpit > 9 months ago, 2 Jan 2019
Cockpit
156 posts
2 Jan 2019 6:26PM
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This was in our Marina today.
Not sure why the photo is on its side...
Cant see it on a google search and wondered if anybody on here knows what it's called?
Its around the size of a large dinner plate and has a deep blue almost purple outer frill which moves up and down as it swims.

Crusoe
QLD, 1193 posts
2 Jan 2019 8:35PM
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Crystal Jelly maybe

jellyrisk.eu/media/cms_page_media/115/27.Jellyfish%20Guide%202014%20-%20Spain%20(english).pdf

GKandCC
NSW, 218 posts
3 Jan 2019 10:47AM
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Based on its similarity to a Ming era dinner plate I think you have just spied the rumoured ,newly developed, Chinese marine surveillance drone, a cunning fusion of biological and electronic technology. Devilishly clever what!

valo
NSW, 309 posts
3 Jan 2019 12:15PM
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I spotted a box jellyfish while kayaking on Lake Macquarie about 5 yrs ago. Called the local council and no one believed me.
Then on their website about 4 months ago was a story about a box jellyfish washing up on shore and how unusual and dangerous it was to be so far south!!
I recommend giving the council a call if it is something unusual. At least you have the picture to prove it.

jacktheflyer
QLD, 44 posts
3 Jan 2019 12:29PM
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I'd call it Jim the Jellyfish.

jbear
NSW, 115 posts
3 Jan 2019 2:02PM
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Areoplane !

GKandCC
NSW, 218 posts
3 Jan 2019 4:05PM
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jacktheflyer said..
I'd call it Jim the Jellyfish.


In view of the time of the year, with all the festivities and all, I'd call im 'jellybelly'...a migratory species which usually makes a yearly appearance, but by all official accounts is increasingly said to be endemic.

UncleBob
NSW, 1214 posts
3 Jan 2019 5:52PM
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Hails from Queensland, bounces around not really knowing which direction to go, dressed in blue, have to call it Peter.



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