Curtained Jelly

Eperetmus typus

• Group: Other
• Max size: 4.5 cm

A delicate coastal jelly found in spring through early winter, it drifts through bays and slope water hunting small plankton. When startled it pulls every tentacle up under the contracted bell, vanishing the trailing curtain that gives it its name.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hydrozoa › Limnomedusae › Olindiidae › Eperetmus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 289899.