Subject: APK00014pm

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• by jessicaluo scientist, admin

  i'm going to call this #mystery jelly, a #chimera (salp/siph/cteno/medusa), or maybe #unknown, or who knows, a #newspecies?

  Posted February 28, 2015 12:49 AM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Thanks for your attempt to ID it, @JessicaLuo It was fun:)

  Posted February 28, 2015 11:40 AM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  I've read the Twitter discussion..it reminds me rather a sipho than a cydippid.. but the pointy ending is just too oddly shaped.

  Posted March 3, 2015 8:34 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  Hey Zuz! ID is a stumper! I think cteno, but ctene rows rinscrutable and inseparable from what could be meridional canals at the oral end.

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:08 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  The 1 ‘tentacle’ up top does make Euplokamis (dunlapae) a viable guess, bc branching of tentacle-altho not abundant, they r present here.

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:08 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  uplo tentc have ‘balls’ off at regular intervals (balled colloblasts). However, main tentacle itself usually is fine/thin

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:09 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  and the side branches appear discrete and ovular. This one tentacle is thick, and the “side balls” (a term?) appear stout.

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:09 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  The 2 small ‘extensions’ coming off the aboral end are too big to big papilla, so I am left thinking they must be paired tentacles.

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:09 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  Dryodora (glandiformis) is scarcely abundnt, but present. They r unable to fully retract paired tentacles, and usually appear as this.

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:10 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  They have a ‘vestible’/pouch toward the oral end, and mouth/stomodeum curves inward slightly like lobate (here looks maybe as such)

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:10 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  usually 'muddy' up features at oral end

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:10 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  Without mystery “tentacle” up top; resembling side branches of euplo; I say dryodora. To be honest; I am totally unsure bw the 2 ID

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:10 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  Haha!! My 2 cents ( : Thanks for the heads up and birthday wishes; all the best Zuz! And I will check out the other mysteries today ( =

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:11 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Wow, what a detailed explanation!😃 Thank you so much. I was searching Euplokamis pictures and haven't found any with such a pointy ending

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:14 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  but later I found some other cydippids with very pointy parts.. but not living around California.It's really exciting to find such odd ones.

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:17 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Looking forward to your other replies 😃 Thanks!!

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:19 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

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  Yes,without paired feature (I say not fully retracted tentacles) and inner features; top tentacle would make me say euplokamis would

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:21 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  but euplokamis is usually caught in nice detail (ctene rows etc) bc not very muscular

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:22 PM

• by bgrassian scientist

  I will check out the other photos later today, for sure! Will be free to later on

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:23 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  OK, thank youu! 😃

  Posted March 4, 2015 5:26 PM