''Aequorea tenuis'', or the flat jellyfish, is a species of
hydrozoan found off the coastline of mainland North America. It reaches only two inches in diameter, with more than eighty fine
tentacle
In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work main ...
s. As with several other species of ''
Aequorea
''Aequorea'' is a genus of pelagic hydrozoans in the family Aequoreidae.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
*'' Aequorea africana'' Millard, 1966
*'' Aequorea albida'' L. Agassiz, 1862
*'' Aequorea atrikeelis'' Lin, Xu, Huang & W ...
'', these jellyfish
bioluminesce from the base of their tentacles when disturbed.
References
*Goodwin, G; Bogert, C M; Gilliard, E; Coates, C W; "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life", Odham Books, 1961. Volume 13, p. 1666.
Aequoreidae
Animals described in 1862
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