Mile 100 Report
July 5, 2009
We were walking on the beach with Manfred Welsch when we came across a wash up of some very large comb jellies on the beach.
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We were walking on the beach with Manfred Welsch when we came across a wash up of some very large comb jellies on the beach. These animals superficially look like a jelly (fish) but are members of an entirely different Phylum. Jellies belong to the Phylum Cnidaria along with the corals and sea anemones. Comb jellies belong to the Phylum Ctenophora. These animals have gelatinous bodies and swim using rows of structures called comb plates. A comb plate is actually thousands of individual cilia fused together at their bases. These particular comb jellies are Beroe abyssicola and are usually found living in deep water. They are pink, red or purple and can be as large as 13 cm (15 in.) in length. Apparently, they were washed ashore after a strong ocean upwelling brought them up from deeper waters.
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