Australian Jellyfish is a photograph by Lingfai Leung which was uploaded on October 16th, 2016.
Australian Jellyfish
Phyllorhiza punctata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the floating bell, Australian spotted jellyfish or the white-spotted jellyfish. It is... more
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Australian Jellyfish
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Lingfai Leung
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Phyllorhiza punctata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the floating bell, Australian spotted jellyfish or the white-spotted jellyfish. It is native to the West Pacific from Australia to Japan, but has been introduced widely elsewhere. It feeds primarily on zooplankton. P. punctata generally can reach up to 50 centimetres (20 in) in bell diameter, but in October 2007, one 72 cm (28 in) wide, perhaps the largest ever recorded, was found on Sunset Beach, North Carolina.
The Phyllorhiza punctata is a part of the Rhizostomatidae Family and the Phyllorhiza Genus. Their venom is not potent enough to kill their prey which is why they are filter feeders. Their main food source is zooplankton. Normally they travel in large groups, which tends to result in huge swaths of them consuming all of the zooplankton in the area. This leads to detrimental impacts for the local ecosystem in which they travel through. Since they eat all the zooplankton, there is a lack of food for the other species relying on the plankton as their food source.
Their native distribution is around Cairns, Queensland, Australia, and Thailand. Having its native habitat extend north from eastern Australia up to South East Asia. They have also been found in non-native regions such as Western Australia, Philippines, United States, the Atlantic Basin, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the eastern Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. The P. punctata prefer warm temperate seas and aggregate in waters near coastlines
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Rainbow Artist Orlando L
I love this magnificent image!! so beautifully composed!! Wonderful capture!! L/F
Chrisann Ellis
Lingfai, Your Work has been Featured On The Home Page of Weekly Fun For All Mediums...Congrats!!! Beautiful! vt
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