Marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have observed several species of the jellyfish genus Crossota in Monterey Bay, California.
....They have red coloration, a hemispherical bell, eight tubular or pendant gonads, tentacles in single or multiple rows.
They swim with a series of strong pulsing contractions, usually followed by a period of quiescence.
MBARI biologists used a remotely operated vehicle to observe Crossota jellyfish in Monterey Canyon, a submarine canyon in Monterey Bay, California.
“Our robotic submersibles give us a peek at how animals thrive in the ocean’s dark depths,” they noted....
Among the jellies encountered by the team was Crossota millsae, a species recently described from the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii and California and dubbed ‘psychedelic jelly.’
“The remarkable coloration of this jelly tipped off scientists that they had found a previously unknown species,” the scientists said....
