Description

Also known as American Comb Jelly, Common Comb Jelly, Jellyfish, Leidy's Comb Jelly, Sea Gooseberry, Sea Grape, Sea Jellies, Sea Walnut, Spot-winged Comb Jelly.

Found in brackish waters, over intertidal bays, coastal shores, and outer continental shelf and slopes, as well as inland waters.
They feed on fish eggs, fish larvae, and zooplankton.
Diameter 18cm
Depth - 5-200m
Widespread Asia-Inland Water, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean

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/Mnemiopsis