Description

Also known as Comb Jelly, Comb Jellyfish, Northern Comb Jellyfish, Sea Gooseberry, Sea Jellies, Sea Walnut, Squash Jellyfish.

Found washed up on beaches, drifting in the sea, or near the surface, in bays and over the continental shelf and slopes.
They feed on other comb jellyfish which they swallow whole.
Length - 15cm
Depth - 0-900m
Worldwide

The Comb Jelly is a hermaphrodite, found, in almost every ocean of the world. Their body is made up of "comb rows" eight rows of ciliary (hair) plates, used for propulsion, these generate the beautiful rainbow colours!
Despite its delicate and perhaps innocent appearance, the sea gooseberry is a voracious predator. Two retractable tentacles, sometimes reaching a length of 20 times the body diameter, are used to catch any prey that floats by! Unlike a jellyfish, comb jellies have no poison to paralyze their prey.
They in turn, are preyed on by crustaceans. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beroe_cucumis