As prevalent as jellies are in Puget Sound there are few resources for identifying them. This is a tall-top jelly, possibly a species that has been fairly recently described as Leuckartiara longicalcar. There is surprisingly very little information about this group of jellies. It was tricky to photograph since it was fairly small and transparent, but I was enamored with it and wanted to draw it.
Kelly Brenner
Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, writer and artist based in Seattle. She is the author of THE NATURALIST AT HOME: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us and NATURE OBSCURA: A City’s Hidden Natural World from Mountaineers Books, a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and Pacific Northwest Book Awards. She writes articles about natural history and has bylines in Crosscut, Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine and others. On the side she writes fiction.
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Kelly BrennerJuly 24, 2023