Flower Hat Jelly
Scientific Name: Olindias formosa
Location and Habitat: The Flower Hat Jelly is commonly found in Brazil, Argentina, and of southern Japan. It lives close to the ocean floor and clusters on kelp fronds and sea grass. It will occasionally rise up to the surface.
Diet: Flower hat jellies eat mostly small fishes and some marine invertebrates. They capture their prey by injecting venom from stinging cells in its tentacles. Like all of its jellyfish friends, it can grow or shrink depending on its food supply. When there is not much food, it can shrink in size so it needs to eat less. It grows back up to its full size when there is lots of food.
Predators: the flower hat Jellies themselves are actually quite powerful predators so they wouldn’t have many predators of their own, but Flower Hat Jellies have been known in the past to eat each other.
Human interaction: humans have very little impact on Flower Hat Jellies, although, when we pollute the ocean it causes Flower Hat Jellies to travel in colonies or 'blooms’. These blooms are extremely dangerous and make it very risky for people
wanting to swim in Brazil, Argentina or southern Japan. Flower Hat Jellies are poisonous and just one of them can give you an extreme rash (you can imagine what a bloom would do to you). Although they have no head, heart, brain, cartilage or real eyes, Flower Hat Jellies are very risky to be around.
Weight and Lenth: the Flower Hat Jelly can grow up to 6 inches in diameter.
Colour and Characteristics: the Flower Hat Jelly is a fairly rare jellyfish. It can be characterised by its beautiful colours varying from mixes of: yellow, orange, peach, pink, purple, green and blue. The Flower Hat Jelly looks a lot like a hat with flowers on it (hence the name). The ‘flowers’ are multi-coloured, little tentacles that stick out of the top part and the rim of
the Flower Hat Jelly. Underneath the jelly there are longer tentacles that are used to attack prey (in some photos you won’t see these longer tentacles because they are tucked up while the jelly looks for prey). All of these tentacles can provide a painful sting that can leave a nasty rash.
Location and Habitat: The Flower Hat Jelly is commonly found in Brazil, Argentina, and of southern Japan. It lives close to the ocean floor and clusters on kelp fronds and sea grass. It will occasionally rise up to the surface.
Diet: Flower hat jellies eat mostly small fishes and some marine invertebrates. They capture their prey by injecting venom from stinging cells in its tentacles. Like all of its jellyfish friends, it can grow or shrink depending on its food supply. When there is not much food, it can shrink in size so it needs to eat less. It grows back up to its full size when there is lots of food.
Predators: the flower hat Jellies themselves are actually quite powerful predators so they wouldn’t have many predators of their own, but Flower Hat Jellies have been known in the past to eat each other.
Human interaction: humans have very little impact on Flower Hat Jellies, although, when we pollute the ocean it causes Flower Hat Jellies to travel in colonies or 'blooms’. These blooms are extremely dangerous and make it very risky for people
wanting to swim in Brazil, Argentina or southern Japan. Flower Hat Jellies are poisonous and just one of them can give you an extreme rash (you can imagine what a bloom would do to you). Although they have no head, heart, brain, cartilage or real eyes, Flower Hat Jellies are very risky to be around.
Weight and Lenth: the Flower Hat Jelly can grow up to 6 inches in diameter.
Colour and Characteristics: the Flower Hat Jelly is a fairly rare jellyfish. It can be characterised by its beautiful colours varying from mixes of: yellow, orange, peach, pink, purple, green and blue. The Flower Hat Jelly looks a lot like a hat with flowers on it (hence the name). The ‘flowers’ are multi-coloured, little tentacles that stick out of the top part and the rim of
the Flower Hat Jelly. Underneath the jelly there are longer tentacles that are used to attack prey (in some photos you won’t see these longer tentacles because they are tucked up while the jelly looks for prey). All of these tentacles can provide a painful sting that can leave a nasty rash.