Bay nettle jellyfishKEITH BAYHA, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Bay nettle jellyfish versus sea nettle jellyfish NOAA FISHERIES

See K.M. Bayha et al., “Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei),” PeerJ, 5:e3863, 2017.

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