Jellies and other gelatinous creatures
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Portuguese man-of-war
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, pleustonic
Portuguese man-of-war
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, pleustonic
Portuguese man-of-war
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, pleustonic
Portuguese man-of-war
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, pleustonic
Hydromedusa
Newly released medusa.
Size: tiny
Place: CEBIMar, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, cebimar-usp, Differential interference contrast, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Adult medusa from plankton.
Size: visible
Place: Farol dos Moleques, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Medusa released in the laboratory.
Size: visible
Place: Farol dos Moleques, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, Differential interference contrast, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Parasitised adult medusa. Detail of manubrium with Cunina larvae.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Adult medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Adult medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydroid
Gonangium with medusa buds.
Size: visible
Place: Ponta do Baleeiro, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, benthic, bright field, cebimar-usp, epibiotic, rocky-shore

Hydromedusa
Medusa adulta. A água-viva Olindias sambaquiensis é comum no litoral Sudeste, sobretudo nos meses de inverno e primavera. É conhecida dos banhistas pelo colorido vívido e pelos tentáculos urticantes.
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic

Hydromedusa
Medusa adulta. A água-viva Olindias sambaquiensis é comum no litoral Sudeste, sobretudo nos meses de inverno e primavera. É conhecida dos banhistas pelo colorido vívido e pelos tentáculos urticantes.
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, benthic, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish
Hydroid and hydromedusa
Newly released medusa.
Size: tiny
Place: Saco Grande, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, benthic, cebimar-usp, dark field, epibiotic, jellyfish, planktonic, rocky-shore
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Adult medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Adult medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydroid
Medusoid scaping from gonangium.
Size: large
Place: Saco Grande, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, benthic, cebimar-usp, dark field, rocky-shore
Hydroid
Newly released medusa.
Size: tiny
Place: Farol dos Moleques, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, benthic, bright field, cebimar-usp, epibiotic, jellyfish, rocky-shore
Hydromedusa
Immature medusa.
Size: tiny
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, benthic, cebimar-usp, dark field, epibiotic, jellyfish, rocky-shore
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, planktonic
Hydromedusa
22-day-old medusa.
Size: tiny
Place: Praia da Enseada, Caraguatatuba, SP, Brazil
Tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, adult, benthic, cebimar-usp, commensal, jellyfish, macrofauna, macrophotography, sand beach, symbiosis
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Newly released medusa
Size: visible
Place: Pier Petrobras, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Adult medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Cubozoan
Male medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Seto fishing port, Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Cubozoans
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Cubozoan
Adult medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Seto fishing port, Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Cubozoan
Size: large
Place: Costão do Carneiro, Ubatuba, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrofauna, macrophotography, neotype, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Adult medusa.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Medusa.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Adult medusa.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic

Scyphozoan
Adult medusa. The juvenile stage the spider crab Libinia ferreirae can be seen inside the bell of the jellyfish Lychnorhiza lucerna.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, symbiosis

Scyphozoan
Adult medusa. The juvenile stage the spider crab Libinia ferreirae can be seen inside the bell of the jellyfish Lychnorhiza lucerna.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, symbiosis
Scyphozoan
Adult medusa
Size: visible
Place: Seto fishing port, Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Scyphozoan
Adult medusa
Size: visible
Place: Seto fishing port, Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Scyphozoan
Ephyra.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Adult medusa.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Young medusa.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Ephyra.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Young medusa.
Size: large
Place: CEBIMar, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, benthic, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic
Comb jelly or ctenophore
Adult specimen.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, macrophotography, planktonic
Comb jelly or ctenophore
Larva.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cebimar-usp, larva, macrophotography, planktonic
Comb jelly or ctenophore
Adult specimen.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, macrophotography, planktonic
Comb jelly or ctenophore
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, macrophotography, planktonic
Comb jelly or ctenophore
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, macrophotography, planktonic
Comb jelly or ctenophore
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, juvenile, planktonic

Floating colonial hydrozoan - detail of dactylozooids
Porpita is a colonial hydrozoan which lives floating on the sea surface. The polyps are arranged concentrically on the lower surface of a hard, chitinous central disk. There is a large central polyp (gastrozooid) around of which are arranged numerous gastro-gonozoids, polyps responsible for food intake and production of jellyfish. The dactilozooids are the polyps responsible for capturing food and defense, being located more externally.
Size: large
Place: Praia do Segredo, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, pleustonic

Hidrozoário colonial flutuante, vista lateral
Porpita is a colonial hydrozoan which lives floating on the sea surface. The polyps are arranged concentrically on the lower surface of a hard, chitinous central disk. There is a large central polyp (gastrozooid) around of which are arranged numerous gastro-gonozoids, polyps responsible for food intake and production of jellyfish. The dactilozooids are the polyps responsible for capturing food and defense, being located more externally.
Size: large
Place: Praia do Segredo, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, macrophotography, pleustonic

Hidrozoário colonial flutuante, vista aboral - dactilozoóides distendidos
Porpita is a colonial hydrozoan which lives floating on the sea surface. The polyps are arranged concentrically on the lower surface of a hard, chitinous central disk. There is a large central polyp (gastrozooid) around of which are arranged numerous gastro-gonozoids, polyps responsible for food intake and production of jellyfish. The dactilozooids are the polyps responsible for capturing food and defense, being located more externally.
Size: large
Place: Praia do Segredo, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, macrophotography, pleustonic

Floating colonial hydrozoan - medusae
Porpita is a colonial hydrozoan which lives floating on the sea surface. The polyps are arranged concentrically on the lower surface of a hard, chitinous central disk. There is a large central polyp (gastrozooid) around of which are arranged numerous gastro-gonozoids, polyps responsible for food intake and production of jellyfish. The dactilozooids are the polyps responsible for capturing food and defense, being located more externally.
Size: large
Place: Praia do Segredo, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, pleustonic
Hydromedusa
Newly released medusa.
Size: tiny
Place: Praia da Enseada, Caraguatatuba, SP, Brazil
Tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, adult, benthic, cebimar-usp, commensal, jellyfish, macrofauna, macrophotography, sand beach, symbiosis
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Freshwater hydromedusa
Size: large
Place: Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Hydromedusa
Size: large
Place: Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, jellyfish, macrophotography, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Hydromedusa
Size: visible
Place: Shirahama, Japan
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cnidarian tree of life project, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic, seto marine biological laboratory
Comb jelly or ctenophore
Tentacular view.
Size: large
Place: CEBIMar, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, dark field, macrophotography, pelagic, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Adult medusa.
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, adult, jellyfish, macrophotography, pelagic, planktonic, submarine
Hydromedusa
Newly released medusa.
Size: tiny
Place: CEBIMar, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, cebimar-usp, Differential interference contrast, jellyfish, planktonic

Hydromedusa
Medusa adulta. A água-viva Olindias sambaquiensis é comum no litoral Sudeste, sobretudo nos meses de inverno e primavera. É conhecida dos banhistas pelo colorido vívido e pelos tentáculos urticantes.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, planktonic
Scyphozoan
Size: huge
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: >100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, planktonic

Hydromedusa
Medusa adulta. A água-viva Olindias sambaquiensis é comum no litoral Sudeste, sobretudo nos meses de inverno e primavera. É conhecida dos banhistas pelo colorido vívido e pelos tentáculos urticantes.
Size: large
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 10 - 100 mm, adult, cebimar-usp, jellyfish, planktonic
Hydromedusa
Medusa adulta.
Size: visible
Place: Canal de São Sebastião, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
Tags: 1.0 - 10 mm, cebimar-usp, dark field, jellyfish, planktonic
Fact sheet
- Number of images: 77
- Creation date: Feb. 21, 2012, 2:49 p.m.
- Last updated: Sept. 15, 2019, 8:44 a.m.
- Contained taxa: Libinia ferreirae, Carybdea brevipedalia, Carybdea mora, Carybdea sivickisi, Tamoya haplonema, Copula sivickisi, Chiropsalmus quadrumanus, Bougainvillia carolinensis, Bougainvillia niobe, Cladonema, Staurocladia, Corymorpha bigelowi, Corymorpha gracilis, Dipurena reesi, Stauridiosarsia reesi, Hydrocoryne miurensis, Turritopsis nutricula, Leuckartiara, Porpita porpita, Proboscidactyla ornata, Ectopleura obypa, Aequorea, Rhacostoma atlantica, Rhacostoma atlanticum, Clytia linearis, Obelia dichotoma, Lafoeina amirantensis, Cirrholovenia tetranema, Eutima sapinhoa, Hebella furax, Hebella scandens, Laodicea undulata, Eucheilota paradoxica, Octophialucium bigelowi, Sertularia marginata, Tridentata marginata, Liriope tetraphylla, Olindias sambaquiensis, Cunina, Physalia physalis, Linuche unguiculata, Nausithoe aurea, Nausithoe maculata, Cassiopea xamachana, Lychnorhiza lucerna, Mastigias papua, Phyllorhiza punctata, Chrysaora lactea, Pelagia, Beroe ovata, Bolinopsis vitrea, Mnemiopsis leidyi, Leucothea multicornis, Craspedacusta, Ectopleura dumortieri
- Contained tags: 0.1 - 1.0 mm, >100 mm, 10 - 100 mm, 1.0 - 10 mm, adult, benthic, bright field, cebimar-usp, cnidarian tree of life project, commensal, dark field, Differential interference contrast, epibiotic, jellyfish, juvenile, larva, macrofauna, macrophotography, neotype, pelagic, planktonic, pleustonic, rocky-shore, sand beach, seto marine biological laboratory, submarine, symbiosis