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Porpita porpita has a small disc like body and floats freely in the water column

Description

Porpita porpita has a small disc like body and floats freely in the water column. Related to other species of jellyfish, this species measures just one inch indiameter.

Credit

Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration

Photographer

Bruce Moravchik

Location

South Atlantic Bight, Southeast United States

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Atlantic Shelf and Slope

NOAA Affiliation

NOAA

Keywords

Ocean Exploration
Invertebrates
Zooplankton