Dwellers of the sea and shore dwellersofseasho00crow Year: 1935 The Comb Jellies and Others IS other comb jellies as large as Itself, l^xceedingly phos- phorescent, its brilliant green light flashing intermit- tently in the night time makes a spectacle in the waters that is singularly entrancing. Another ctenophore, less often seen, though common enough at times along the shores of New England, is the 'comet jelly' {Pleurobraehia rhododaetyla) ^ an pleurobrachia; the comet jelly. Iridescent bubble of pink of about an inch or more in diameter. This little living transparent sphere courses
Dwellers of the sea and shore dwellersofseasho00crow Year: 1935 The Comb Jellies and Others IS other comb jellies as large as Itself, l^xceedingly phos- phorescent, its brilliant green light flashing intermit- tently in the night time makes a spectacle in the waters that is singularly entrancing. Another ctenophore, less often seen, though common enough at times along the shores of New England, is the 'comet jelly' {Pleurobraehia rhododaetyla) ^ an pleurobrachia; the comet jelly. Iridescent bubble of pink of about an inch or more in diameter. This little living transparent sphere courses its way here and there through the water, sometimes with a revolving and sometimes with a rotating motion effected by the paddling of Its eight rows of cilia. But, more often than not, a curious exhibition accompanies these active movements. From what appears to be two nodes, the size of a pin's head, situated on opposite sides of the sphere, there will be extended and retracted, suddenly or gradually, as the case may be, a pair of threadlike streamers fringed along one side for their whole length with long waving cilia. As these slender
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