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The lion's mane jellyfish is also known as the arctic red jellyfish, [3] hair jelly, [4] ... dead lion's mane jelly washing up on the beach.
Cyanea fulva, the Atlantic lion's mane jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish found along the Mid-Atlantic coastal region of the United States.C. fulva are commonly noted as being about two inches in diameter and smaller than C. capillata, however, larger than C. versicolor, a co-occurring close species.
A lifeguard had pitchforked a 40-pound (18 kg) jellyfish – whose longest tentacle was 13 feet (4.0 m) – to try to drag it ashore and dispose of it; however, the dead jellyfish broke apart, releasing its nematocysts on the beach and stinging the crowd in the span of about 20 minutes. [10] [11]
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She warned against picking up jellyfish, as stinging species like Portuguese man o’ war and lion’s mane can still hurt humans even when the jellyfish is dead.
The lion's mane jellyfish, or Cyanea capillata, are common to find along ocean beaches in New Jersey. These large jellyfish prefer cooler ocean water than warm New Jersey bays, Bologna said.
For example, in the North Sea, the lion's mane jellyfish and the blue jellyfish appear as distinct species. [11] On the East Coast of the United States there are at least two co-occurring species, C. fulva and C. versicolor. [12] Cyanea may be a species complex of recently diverged species. Cyanea annasethe Haeckel, 1880; Cyanea annaskala von ...
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