[Cnidaria] Re: Identification of Jellyfish

[Claudia Mills]

Hello Qaseem and everybody else,

I don't know warm water medusae well and I don't (therefore) know  
much about rhizostome medusae, but in general when posting questions  
about identifications here, it would be extremely useful to know  
WHERE the animals are. That said, I would assume that in some cases  
we might be talking about unexpected "alien" or exotic species and  
maybe we should not be geographically prejudiced. Still, one of the  
first things that I want to know when trying to identify something is  
where it came from.

To bare my ignorance of the subject, if I knew that the posted image  
was taken in the eastern Mediterranean, I would then start checking  
the literature to see what Rhopilema nomadica really looks like. But  
as I have already admitted, that could be way off the mark and  
someone else really should be answering this question...

Cheers,
Claudia Mills



On Nov 17, 2007, at 12:08 AM, qaseem tahera wrote:

> Dear Cnidarian Friends
> Could you please identify attached pics.
> Many thanks in advance.
> QASEEM TAHERA