This is an evolving project started by Steven R Kauten. In time, the goal of this interactive project is to evolve the interface into a working app for jellyfish enthusiasts with the ability to identify jellyfish that have been found on the beaches by introducing an augmented reality ability to identify location, origin and kind.
stomolophus meleagris or cannonball jelly
can you identify this jelly
STORY
Mysterious as the sea is, the growth of global warming and the water temperature has bent the future of marine habitat by creating an alpha change of the waters environment. One such marine creature surging in population owing to global warming is the jellyfish. How is this credible you might ask? Well, threats to jellyfish are down because predatory species are disappearing. In addition, warmer waters of marine life forge less oxygen and more dead zones allowing jellyfish to create larger blooms or reproduction groups of jellyfish.
HISTORY
Jellyfish have been roving the ocean waters for close to 700 million years adapting to the ever-changing environment. Not to mention, they are creatures that endure growth without a vertebral column. Plus, jellyfish possess no bones, brains, heads, or hearts. Optically certain classifications of jellyfish possess an eye-like organ known as ocelli. A single lens without an elaborate retina aggregates optically as a “simple eye” fixating light onto the retina or film.
rhopilema verrilli or mushroom cap jelly
bloom jelly
REPRODUCTION
Blooms of jellyfish exercise insemination sexually by releasing eggs from their mouths composing a planula employing sperm fertilizer outside the body obtaining asexual reproduction. Affecting the medusoid practice the planula organizes the polyps or the bud kindred flower driving an annex to the ocean floor that advance numerous buds amid a manifold of months to years. The buds emerge into tiny jellyfish known as ephyra. Within a few weeks, the ephyra evolves into an adult stage known as medusoid.
SWIMMING
Jellyfish emulate male, female, or hermaphrodite marine life. Making up a 30-year lifespan jellyfish rely on currents drifting them to different depths of the sea animating the jellyfish as plankton. Sometimes matching them onshore. Optically, jellyfish can surface as transparent colored umbrella-shaped bodies plus tentacles that measure the corresponding length of two blue whales, but also in intervals as short as a pinhead.
tentacles
cubozoa is the most venomous
HUMAN VS JELLYFISH
A jellyfish as a marine killer of humans is higher than a shark by a sum of fact. Jellyfish mobilize themselves with thousands of cells that frame coiled threads initiating tentacles that sting. Trapping their prey, jellyfish operate their tentacles to bait and release venom uncoiling their threads.
FEEDING
Jellyfish are passive carnivore creatures. Their diet is contained within plankton inclusive of other jellyfish, fish eggs, small fish, and crustaceans. These umbrella-shaped bell creature mouths together with their digestive systems are completed with abbreviated tubes pendant from their bodies used to swallow food.
moon jelly invasion
moon jelly
MOON JELLIES / AURELIA AURITA
Aurelia aurita, a binomial name of the moon jellyfish or moon jelly, are spiraling in population because human play has forged overfishing, ocean warming and pollution. This adds to the attraction of tropical temperate latitudes of the Atlantic. Their biorhythm encompass the sexual asexual reproduction that govern the medusoid model. A classification taxonomy of true jelly can be tacked onto the moon jelly
Covering the genus of the moon jellyfish visually shows a round shallow bell shape among short tentacles. The tentacles are noted as cnidocytes or functional stinging cells. The stinging cells operate as a utensil to catch their prey. These cnidocytes are competent at stinging people.
As we have defined earlier, moon jelly are not swimmers and can be found on beaches if the tides happen to push them towards that sand after a large storm or tide.
Moon jelly are commonplace victims of intrusion from ocean sunfish and leatherback turtles.
PACIFIC SEA NETTLE / WEST COAST SEA NETTLE
Pacific Sea Nettle or West Coast Sea Nettle traits hold colors of white, striped orange, brown, and purple.
Developing into a larger population over climate change raising concern of fishermen on the Oregon coast. Collectively Pacific Sea Nettle plant themselves in California, Alaska, Japan, and Baja Peninsula.
Determining their taxonomy, the 30cm (11.8in) diameter bell shaped structure too their 457.2cm (15ft) long maroon tentacles classify as Scyphozoa.
Conducting their methods of travel, the Pacific Sea Nettle are capable of avoiding their predators more so than other categories of jellyfish.
Employing their mouths to feed after making use of the toxins in their tentacles to secure food transforming the enzymes into nutrients digesting plankton, crustaceans and small fish.
Generating a course of reproduction is similar to that of the moon jelly.
