Floating White Spotted Jellyfish
by Nina Silver
Title
Floating White Spotted Jellyfish
Artist
Nina Silver
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph With Creative Digital Enhancements
Description
Although the jellyfish has caused much destruction to Eco-systems and fisheries, they really are quite beautiful to watch in the water, and to photograph. This jellyfish is known as 'Phyllorhiza punctata'. or 'the floating bell'. It is identified by its brilliant white polka dots and delicate transparent outer skin. Punctata generally can reach up to 50 centimetres (20 in) in bell diameter, and they are abundant in warm waters. According to information researched on the internet, "Their main food source is zooplankton. Normally they travel in large groups, which tends to result in huge swaths of them consuming all of the zooplankton in the area. This leads to detrimental impacts for the local ecosystem in which they travel through. Since they eat all the zooplankton, there is a lack of food for the other species relying on the plankton as their food source." "Their native distribution is around Cairns, Queensland, Australia, and Thailand. Having its native habitat extend north from eastern Australia up to South East Asia. They have also been found in non-native regions such as Western Australia, Philippines, United States, the Atlantic Basin, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the eastern Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. The P. punctata prefer warm temperate seas and aggregate in waters near coastlines."
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January 9th, 2017
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