Subject: Jellyfish or Egg Mass??

From: [email-masked] (SKGMonBI)
Date: 20 Sep 1995 23:36:52 -0400

WeI were diving last weekend in the Straits of Juan de Fuca west of Port
Angeles, Washington.  We saw a two foot long segmented "creature".  The
segments were about one centimeter long and had a yellow center surrounded
by a firm clear (jellyfish looking) material. The body looked like a
relatively fat snake.   On one end of the mass there was a hammerhead of
clear material that was pulsating and moving water out of an opening on
the bottom of the "head".  I saw one of these things in the Neah Bay area
near the month of the Straits.  None of the salmon biologist I worked with
had any idea what it is.  If you have any idea where to start looking
e-mail me at [email-masked].  Thanks Steve Morse

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From: [email-masked] (Dhugal J. Lindsay)
Date: 22 Sep 1995 03:34:15 GMT

> e-mail me at [email-masked].  Thanks Steve Morse 

Sounds like a siphonophore to me. It's a kind of jellyfish.

-- 
Dhugal J. Lindsay
University of Tokyo.

猪出ると聞きしが行きぬこの道を　-Dhugal
wild boars appear i've heard
but still, This is the road
that I shall take                 -Dhugal