Box Jellies in Gulf of Mexico?

[awdemeo]

Does anyone know what kind of jelly this is?

I got this shot 2 years back in Pensacola, FL.

I beleave you took a picture of purple jellyfish, Pelagia noctiluca from what i have seen in my books and compairing them to your picture i am not 100 percent of this but i am relativly shure of it. Great picture to

 

[Missdirected]

About three weeks ago I saw a brood of what appeared to be box jellies in Pensacola, Florida. They were about the size and shape of my pinky fingernail, and had four primary tentacles that branched out into multiple, smaller tentacles. I've never seen these before, and was under the impression that box-type jellies were confined to the Tropical Pacific.

Do we have box jellies in the gulf, and if so, what variety do we have here? (hopefully not fleckeri or irukandji)

slightly off-topic... We had sea nettles here last year... Those things were a horror. We also had something called a "Pink Meanie". Neither creatures I care to run into again. Was stung by the nettle which left a mark for about a week.

 

[grisgris]

I beleave you took a picture of purple jellyfish, Pelagia noctiluca from what i have seen in my books and compairing them to your picture i am not 100 percent of this but i am relativly shure of it. Great picture to

I think you may have it. I didn't think to post the size and after looking up Pelagia noctiluca it fits. Not all the photos look like it but a few are close .