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Name this Jellyfish?

Created by Cockpit Cockpit  > 9 months ago, 2 Jan 2019
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Cockpit
Cockpit

156 posts

2 Jan 2019 6:26pm
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.
GKandCC
GKandCC

NSW

218 posts

3 Jan 2019 10:47am
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
valo

NSW

309 posts

3 Jan 2019 12:15pm
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
jacktheflyer

QLD

44 posts

3 Jan 2019 12:29pm
I'd call it Jim the Jellyfish.
jbear
jbear

NSW

115 posts

3 Jan 2019 2:02pm
Areoplane !
GKandCC
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
UncleBob

NSW

1301 posts

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