Bonaire banded box jelly - Tamoya ohboya

This video accompanies our blog post at: http://blennywatcher.com/2012/02/09/b... The jellyfish known as the Bonaire banded box jellyfish was officially described in a paper published in 2011. Although the jellyfish was known to the public for many years, it took over ten years to gather specimens and documentation required to carry out the formal study required to establish it as a new species. The scientific name, Tamoya ohboya, was selected through an internet contest, open to the public.

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[agedvanilla090]

Alright, just making sure.

[janeyanna]

Totally.

[Michael Zl]

reminds me of the brain suckers from halflife

[agedvanilla090]

fishes? really?

[janeyanna]

To travel safely, I guess. If the jelly is poisonous no predator would try to snatch the fishes out of between its tentacles.

[nicecream44]

oooooohh yea this is it

[drewmkats]

I wanna know why the fish were swimming inside of it

[Tesserazoa U]

Woohoo. Awesome. And now it is a Top 10 Species of the Year! Would not have been possible to do the species naming contest without COPUS.