Have you ever heard of a Helmet Jellyfish? A Helmet Jellyfish is a jellyfish that is shaped of a crown/helmet and the tip is pointed or dome-shaped. A Helmet Jellyfish will show you how it lives and everything about it.

 

This paragraph will show you about the size, coloration, and adaptions of the Helmet Jellyfish. First, the Helmet Jellyfish may reach a height of 35cm and a diameter of 25cm. Next, the Helmet Jellyfish have dark red and/or brown stomachs and are bioluminescent. After that, Helmet Jellyfish are known to have poisonous stinging cells in them. Last, the large, red or orange stomach occupies the upper part of the umbrella. This paragraph shows the Helmets Jellyfish size, coloration, and adaptations.

 

Second, this paragraph will show you the habitat, population, and conservation status of the Helmet Jellyfish. First, the Helmet Jellyfish is found in many places, for example, it includes the South Shetland Islands, South Sandwich Islands, the Southern Ocean, Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninsula, and other marine habitats worldwide. Next, the population of the Helmet Jellyfish is unknown and the population is increasing. Last, Helmet Jellyfish are survivors, in fact scientists have discovered that many sea jellies thrive in dirty polluted and oxygen-poor water. This paragraph shows the Helmet Jellyfishes habitat, population, and conservation status.

 

Last, this paragraph will show you about diet, feeding habitats, and predators of the Helmet Jellyfish. First, they use tentacles to grasp their prey, and with the help of marginal lappets, bend the minwards to transfer the prey into the mouth of the individual. Next, Helmet Jellyfish eat small fish and krill anywhere they find it. Last, the Helmets Jellyfish predators are sea anemones, the way they prevent them is, they use their oral arms to bring the prey to their “mouth”  and sting them. This paragraph talks about the Helmet Jellyfishes diet, feeding habitats, and predators.

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The Helmet Jellyfish is found in every ocean in the world apart from the Arctic. I think the Helmet Jellyfish is very unique because I have never really heard of it or seen it.

 

Author:  Clarissa A.
Published: 02/2013

 

Sources: animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Periphylla_periphylla/      February 4, 2013