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Small But Spicy: Powerful Clinging Jellyfish Spotted In NJ Waters Small But Spicy: Powerful Clinging Jellyfish Spotted In NJ Waters
Small But Spicy: Powerful Clinging Jellyfish Spotted In NJ Waters A petite but potent jellyfish is hiding in New Jersey waters, naturalists warn. The Clinging Jellyfish, officially dubbed the Gonionemus vertens, was collected last month by naturalist Naturalist Jesse Amesbury at Skimmer Tours during a trip in the Cape May area. The jellyfish is difficult to see, growing to be only about an inch in diameter and mostly transparent, according to the NJDEP. They have a "single distinctive" reddish-orange to yellow cross and between 60 and 80 alternating short and long tentacles containing the nematocysts, or stinging cells, the DEP …

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by Cecilia Levine