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CTENOPHORE SPECIES

Video of Sanctuary Invertebrates - This includes a variety of crustaceans, mollusks, echinoderms, and worms.

Comb Jelly List

The following comb jellies are found within the coral cap region of the sanctuary (0-130 ft, 0-40m deep). Common names are listed, if known.

Comb Jellies
Common Name Scientific Name
Helmet Comb Jelly
Helmet Comb Jelly (Beroe sp.)

Beroe sp.
Venus' Girdle Velamen parellelum

 

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Small, knobby corals in foreground; boulder of brain coral in background. Long, fingery branches of purple sponge anchored in knobby corals and standing upright.
 

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