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Kishinouyea cf. nagatensis

This stauromedusan, or stalked jellyfish, is about the size of a thumbnail. Photographed on brown kelp in the Taputeranga Marine Reserve near Wellington and tentatively identified as Kishinouyea cf. nagatensis (Oka, 1897), a Japanese species. Credit: Sheryl Miller