Medusa phase. Off Newport Pier, Newport Beach, Orange County, CA. 11/10/2014. © Peter J. Bryant and Taylor Sais. Video. Video of feeding on copepod. Identified by Peter Schuchert.
Bougainvillia
Bougainvillia sp. Specimens matched by DNA Barcode; BOLD Index Number ACR4342
This medusa has four unbranched oral tentacles and four marginal bulbs each bearing three tentacles. Vannucci and Rees, 1960
Hydrozoa: Bougainvilliidae
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Medusa phase. Lido Island at Genoa, Newport Beach, Orange County, CA. 8/19/2014. © Peter J. Bryant and Taylor Sais.