Aequorea tenuis

Taxobox
name = "Aequorea tenuis"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Cnidaria
classis = Hydrozoa
ordo = Hydroida
familia = Aequoreidae
genus = "Aequorea"
species = "A. tenuis"
binomial = "Aequorea tenuis"
binomial_authority = (A. Agassiz, 1862)

"Aequorea tenuis", or the flat jellyfish is a species of hydrozoan jellyfish found off the coastline of mainland North America. It reaches only two inches in diameter, with more than eighty fine tentacles. As with several other species of "Aequorea", these jellyfish bioluminesce from the base of their tentacles when disturbed.

References

*Goodwin, G; Bogert, C M; Gilliard, E; Coates, C W; "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life", Odham Books, 1961. Volume 13, p. 1666.