Atlantic Bay Nettle Chrysaora chesapeakei Papenfuss 1936    
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Cnidaria   >   Class Scyphozoa   >   Order Semaeostomeae   >   Family Pelagiidae   >   Genus Chrysaora   

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"Scientists recently discovered that some jellyfish in the Bay are quite different from their ocean cousins. This led scientists from NOAA and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History to declare them as two different species. The newly recognized bay nettle jellies (Chrysaora chesapeakei) are noticeably smaller than their saltwater relatives (C. quinquecirrha), and have only half as many tentacles" (EurekAlert, 13 Oct 2017).

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An Atlantic Bay Nettle in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (8/11/2014). Photo by Robert Aguilar, SERC. (MBP list)

An Atlantic Bay Nettle off Fort Howard, Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/29/2012). Photo by Jon Corcoran. (MBP list)

An Atlantic Bay Nettle in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/20/2017). Photo by Lynn Strauss. (MBP list)

Atlantic Bay Nettle in Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (7/23/2023). (c) Emilio Concari, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Emilio Concari. (MBP list)

An Atlantic Bay Nettle in Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (8/26/2015). Photo by Bill Keim. (MBP list)

(D) is a white color morph and (E) is a red-striped color morph Atlantic Bay Nettle in Calvert Co., Maryland . Photo by Keith Bayha. (MBP list)

Atlantic Bay Nettle in St. Mary's Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) johnbotany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by John Hall. (MBP list)

An Atlantic Bay Nettle in Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (9/25/2017). Photo by Matthew Beziat. (MBP list)

Atlantic Bay Nettle in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (11/21/2022). (c) Bill Hubick, all rights reserved. Photo by Bill Hubick. (MBP list)


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