Family: Bolinopsidae. Photo from a kayak. Campbell Bay, Mayne Island, Gulf Islands, British Columbia
This tiny, uncommon, more-or-less adult ctenophore was 4 mm long. The four orangy-red pigment spots are diagnostic. It is also unusual because the pair of simple, unbranched tentacles exit near the mouth, not towards the aboral pole like most cydippid ctenophores. Hand-dipped from the surface plankton and photographed in an aquarium.
Taken with Monterey Bay Aquarium Dive Team. Drifting by the Monterey Bay Aquarium pipes
Taken with Monterey Bay Aquarium Dive Team. Drifting by the Monterey Bay Aquarium pipes
Ctenophore. Not sure on the ID. Found in a horizontal 1m depth tow next to a fouling community in Lon Beach, CA.
in surface waters of deep open ocean at night, Kona, Hawaii, USA ( Central Pacific Ocean )
planktonic photographed at night in surface waters of deep ocean off Kailua Kona, Hawaii ( Central Pacific Ocean )
lobate ctenophore or comb jelly, a translucent gelatinous organism with colors produced by the diffraction of light through cilia (fine hair-like structures) on the comb rows; with polychaete worm inside, photographed at night in surface waters of deep ocean off Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA ( Central Pacific Ocean )
lobate ctenophore or comb jelly, a translucent gelatinous organism with colors produced by the diffraction of light through cilia (fine hair-like structures) on the comb rows; photographed at night in surface waters of deep ocean off Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA ( Central Pacific Ocean )
in surface waters of deep open ocean at night, Kona, Hawaii, USA ( Central Pacific Ocean )
planktonic siphonophore, photographed at night in surface waters of deep ocean off Kailua Kona, Hawaii ( Central Pacific Ocean )
planktonic siphonophore photographed at night in surface waters of deep ocean off Kailua Kona, Hawaii ( Central Pacific Ocean )