Purple Jellyfish
Description and Comments
Purple with clear edges and bumps or dots on the outside top. Cog-wheel shaped pattern on the underside with dark star-shaped centre. Seen on the edge of a stream which feeds out to sea - firstly right side up, and when I returned, assume it was the same jellyfish upside down. Both views in photo. Sorry, not sure what it's proper name is. Dinner-plate in size.
Type of organism
Jellyfish
Quantity
1
Latitude
-36.74
Longitude
174.76
Condition
Alive
Comments
Not particularly sure myself,
Not particularly sure myself, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's Cyanea lamarckii. It looks like a lion's mane except it's purple.