Snow globe jelly
Modeeria rotunda
- On view
- Into the Deep
- Animal type
- Invertebrates
- Ecosystem
- Deep sea
- Relatives
- Other jellies; Order Leptothecata
- Diet
- Siphonophores, small fish, shrimp, and copepods
- Range
- Worldwide from 100 to 10,000 ft. (30 to 3,100 m)
- Size
- Bell diameter to 1.25 inches (3 cm) and 1 inch bell height (2.5 cm)
Meet the snow globe jelly
Only a faint twilight reveals this jelly’s delicate beauty. A jewel-like red gut stays camouflaged in the deep sea, where red light can’t reach and expose this drifter to danger.
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