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Deep-sea raspberry jelly with rounded peachy-pink bell and trailing tentacles against black

Raspberry jelly

Aeginura grimaldii

Not on exhibit
Animal type
Invertebrates
Ecosystem
Deep sea
Relatives
Hydrozoans
Diet
NA
Range
Worldwide from 1,700 to 11,000 ft. (530–3,400 m)
Size
NA

Meet the raspberry jelly

This jelly’s color helps it hide. See this jelly’s crimson color? Red looks black in the dim light of the midwater. So this red jelly is perfectly camouflaged in dark water and stays hidden from hungry hunters.

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