APHOTOMARINE
An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.
Haliclystus octoradiatus (Lamarck, 1816) - Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
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Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- orange / on Eelgrass 1
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- orange / on Eelgrass 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- orange / on Eelgrass 2
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- orange / on Eelgrass 3
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- orange / on Eelgrass 4
Images above taken on Zostera marina, at Long Rock, near Penzance, Cornwall. 07.05.12.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- at Cape Cornwall 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- at Cape Cornwall 2
Images above taken near Cape Cornwall, West Cornwall. 21.08.13.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- at Lamorna Cove 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- at Lamorna Cove 2
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- at Lamorna Cove 3
Images above of species found on Ceramium sp., in front of the pier at Lamorna Cove, Lamorna, Cornwall. 08.10.13. Images are of a specimen with very few white nematocysts.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on Corallina / middleshore 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on Corallina / middleshore 2
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on Corallina / middleshore 3
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- habitat 1
Images above taken of species on Coral Weed (Corallina officinalis), in a shallow middleshore rockpool next to Albert Pier, Penzance, Cornwall, 14.11.11.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass / lowershore 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass / lowershore 2
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass / lowershore 3
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass / lowershore 4
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass / lowershore 5
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on Cladostephus 1
Images above taken on tide covered lowershore, on Cladostephus spongiosus and on Zostera marina. 0.9m low tide (Newlyn); at Long Rock, near Penzance, Cornwall. 30.10.11. SW4980830930 and SW4979330927.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass lowershore pool 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass lowershore pool 2
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass lowershore pool 3
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass lowershore pool 4
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass lowershore pool 5
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- on eelgrass lowershore pool 6
Images above taken in a lowershore pool fringed with eelgrass on an extremely low tide at Long Rock, near Penzance, Cornwall. 17.04.11. SW4983330910. The images above are of the same animal.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- green morph 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- green morph 2
Images above taken of an unusually coloured specimen found at Battery Rocks, Penzance, Cornwall. 14.10.12.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- in pool Trevaunance Cove 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- in pool Trevaunance Cove 2
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- in pool Trevaunance Cove 3
Images above taken in a lowershore pool during a Porcupine Marine Natural History event at Trevaunance Cove, St. Agnes, Cornwall. 16.09.12.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- in pool Nanven 1
Image above taken in a middleshore pool at Nanven, Cot Valley, near St. Just, Penwith, Cornwall. 15.09.12.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- extra anchors 1
Image above taken of species on Chrondus crispus at Battery Rocks, Penzance, Cornwall, 14.11.12. This particular specimen is unusual in that it appears to have extra anchors around its body.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- from Hannafore Point 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- from Hannafore Point 2
Species found on eelgrass, Zostera marina, and Ceramium species at Hannafore Point, West Looe, Cornwall, during the Marine Biological Association Bioblitz 2013. 24.06.13.
The species differes from H. auricula in that it has white nematocyst clusters in both perradii and interradii; large globular, knob shaped anchors; 10–70 gonadal sacs in each gonad; with 30–120 secondary tentacles in each tentacle cluster. Ref: Haliclystus californiensis, a “new” species of stauromedusa (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) from the northeast Pacific, with a key to the species of Haliclystus by AMANDA S. KAHN, GEORGE I. MATSUMOTO, YAYOI M. HIRANO & ALLEN G. COLLINS.
The following stalked jellyfish found in 2009 is also Haliclystus octoradiatus.
Spotted Kaleidoscope Jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- in rockpool on seaweed 1
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- in rockpool on seaweed 2
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- in rockpool / close-up 1
Images taken in a small lowershore rockpool near the rock at Crinnis Beach, Carlyon Bay, St. Austell, Cornwall. 29.05.09.
Spotted kaleidoscope jellyfish
Haliclystus octoradiatus
- feeding on Eurydice pulchra 1
A number of juvenile specimens of the isopod Eurydice pulchra, the John Harvey Bug were found devoured by stalked jellyfish Haliclystus octoradiatus in the harbour at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, 25.05.17.
Haliclystus octoradiatus is under recorded and records of it will be included with Haliclystus auricula from which the species has been separated. Haliclystus auricula, the Kaleidoscope Jellyfish, lacks white nematocyst clusters. Ref: A review of a supposedly circurnboreal species of stauromedusa, Haliclystus auricula (Rathke, 1806) by Y.M. Hirano. 1996.
The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help
people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.