Plankton Photos, Jellyfish PhotosSee also: More Plankton and Jellyfish Photos Who Eats Zooplankton? |
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| Pelagia colorata, 3 feet (1m), San Diego, Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata, Image 01034 | The sea butterfly (Carolla calceola) is also known as a pteropod (wing foot). A truly planktonic opisthobranch that, being negatively bouyant, must swim with its wings. To 8cm, Pelagic opisthobranch or pteropod (wing foot),open ocean, Corolla calceola, Image 01264 | Leucothea pulchra, a pelagic lobate comb jelly (ctenophore), San Diego, California. To 25cm, Pelagic ctenophore (lobate comb jelly), Image 02496 |
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| Left: Likely the hydromedusa Mitrocoma cellularia, with an amphipod on its bell. There is a family of amphipods (Hyperiidae) that specializes on living on various types of gelatinous animals. Right: an unidentified species of calycophoran siphonophore. Species in this group of siphonophores are very difficult to identify, even for experts. Identifications courtesy Dave Wrobel, Monterey Bay Aquarium. [Image 2491] [Image 2492] | The salp Pegea confoederata, Salp (pelagic tunicate) chain, Image 02494 | |
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| Salp (pelagic tunicate) chain, Cyclosalpa affinis, Image 02495 | Salp (pelagic tunicate) reproduction, open ocean, Cyclosalpa affinis, Image 01263 | Photographer and colonial salp, open ocean, Cyclosalpa affinis, Image 02994 |
| The salp Cyclosalpa affinis is a pelagic tunicate. Individuals group into bracelets, which in turn form chains that can stretch ten feet or more. Individual salps are about 3" to 4" when full grown. Middle: salp reproduction. | ||
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| Diver and pelagic salp chain, open ocean, Image 03158 | Unidentified species of gelatinous zooplankton, Image 03769 | Purple jellyfish, open ocean, Pelagia noctiluca, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Image 06208 |
| Keywords: zooplankton, jellyfish, jellies, jelly fish, ctenophore, Pegea confoederata, Cyclosalpa affinis, pelagia noctiluca, Eutonina indicans, Leucothea pulchra, Carolla calceola, Mitrocoma cellularia, pteropod, cyclosalpa, colonial, salp, chains, photography, photograph, underwater | ||
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