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Jul 6 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
A THREAD 🧵OF STUNNING JELLYFISH ART by Ilona Richter, from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on Mediterranean jellyfish...
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Stunning jellyfish from the Gulf of Naples
Top: Jalithiara formosa
Middle: Pandes conica
Bottom: Neoturris pileata Image
Top-hat like jellyfish from Gulf of Naples
Top: Merga tergestina
Middle: Leuckartiara nobilis
Bottom: Merga galleri Image
Even though they're animals, many jellyfish have lives similar to plants. Jellies are like mobile flowers, growing from plant-like young stages called hydroids.
Top: Kollikerina fasciculata jelly & hydroid
Bottom: Bougainvillia ramosa (you can see the round jelly buds) Image
Lizzia jellyfish, some species can clone themselves to make more jellyfish (In the picture in the middle, a clone is growing off the side of the red central mouth)... Image
Top: Podocoryne jellyfish
Very bottom: Cytais terastyla jellyfish with finger-like fringes around its mouth Image
Some jellyfish are fishers! This species has suction cups on one side of its tentacles for attaching to objects, and ball-like lures on the other side for catching prey. Species: Staurocladia portmanni... Image
The sticky jellyfish Cladonema radiatum... Image
Water jellies...
Top: Zanclea costata
Bottom: Oceania armata Image
Sarsia jellyfish, which grow clones of themselves off their loooooong central mouth... Image
A showy end to the thread of jellyfish art by Ilona Richter, from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's increadible work on jellyfish of the Mediterranean.
Top: Vannuccia hydroid and jellyfish
Top: Acaulis ilonae hydroid Image

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