Elegance - Purple Lipped Jelly

by KJ Swan

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Elegance - Purple Lipped Jelly

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KJ Swan

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This ethereal floating jelly, with long flaxen tentacles flowing from purpley-pink radial canals and circumferential ring, enchanted me. (Sea jelly nerds are cool!)

Purple-lipped Jellies are not a well known species and little data is available even from the first biologists to be able to culture these delicate drifters. (Why "jelly" not jellyfish? - they aren't fish.)

Earleria purpurea, or Purple-lipped Jelly, is found from the coasts of California to the Bering Sea.

(An ethereal purple-lipped jelly (jellyfish) floats gracefully against a dark backdrop. Its delicate, translucent tentacles trail down, creating a mesmerizing display.)

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January 7th, 2026

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