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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
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> 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.
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> Tom Kavanaugh
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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?).
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> 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
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