jelly of the month

une2026: STAUROCLADIA PORTMANNI the staurocladia portmanni is a genus of anthomedusan hydrozoans; the members of the staurocladia species are incapable of swimming, instead they lead a bottom-dwelling lifestyle, meaning they spend pretty much their whole life crawling on the sea floor using their tentacles, which end in adhesive suckers; the other side of their tentacles are covered with stinging cells, the staurocladias uses these to capture their prey;
[src: Jellyfish: A Natural History - Lisa-ann Gershwin;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurocladia]

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