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Sea Walnut

Photo: @milo_hr · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Insects and other invertebrates

Sea Walnut

Mnemiopsis leidyi

Observations in the area
2
Last sighting
18 December 2024
Category
Insects and other invertebrates
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The species

Mnemiopsis leidyi, the warty comb jelly or sea walnut, is a species of tentaculate ctenophore (comb jelly), originally native to the western Atlantic coastal waters. Three species have been named in the genus Mnemiopsis, but they are now believed to be different ecological forms of a single species M. leidyi by most zoologists.

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