Have the aliens finally landed in Monaco!The Moon jellyfish is recognised by its fringed umbrella and reproductive organs in the shape of a four-leafed clover. It stings, but only slightly, and can grow to 40 centimetres. It's found on the Riviera coastline along with the more common Pelagia jellyfish.
If you click on the link, you can see a photo I took of thousands of these jellyfish, dead and washed up on the rocks at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin last June. The stink was awful.
The smaller photo - not as sharp as I'd have liked - but I want to show you the museum's oldest inhabitant, a brown moray eel who was caught off Antibes in 1968 when he was already adult size. Its precise age is unknown but he's at least 44 years old. Incredible, don't you think?
I first saw the thumbnails on the portal and I must really be in a winter mode with all our snow and ice, since I thought they were patterns in the ice! Beautiful creatures, those jellyfish. I visited the museum in 1969; maybe I even glimpsed the eel as a young 'man'.
ReplyDeleteQuite unique and ARTY images!:)
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Great, BLUE colors, Jilly! Those jelly fish really float around in the water!
ReplyDeleteInteresting animals and such a true, blue color!
ReplyDeleteI just love this series. Gorgeous shots!
ReplyDeleteThese are brilliant. I like the last one the best. It's hallucinatory.
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I adore photos of jellyfish, and these are gorgeous, Jilly!
ReplyDeleteAnd that's an impressively venerable moray. I didn't realize they lived that long.
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ReplyDeleteMany thanks for your nice pictures and your comments, you're right some of our fishes are quite aliens !
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