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View of a plastic bucket filled with 2 litres of water containing hundreds of comb jellies (Mnemiopsis leidyi)
Video of a bucket filled with water that contains dozens of larval comb jellies (Mnemiopsis leidyi). They are approximately 2-3 mm in size.
Floating larval comb jellies (Mnemiopsis leidyi). The formal name for this stage are cydippids, which are characterized by the presence of two long tentacles that the comb jelly uses to hunt. These larvae range in size from .25 to 3 millimeters.