11006-02406 Pelagic hydroid (Pelagohydra mirabilis) this rarely seen organism comprises an ovoid 'float' and a flexible' proboscis' both of which carry numerous tentacles. It occasionally washes ashore on Allan's Beach, Otago Peninsula *
DSC_0205 Blue-bottle jellyfish (Physalia physalis) not a jellyfish at all, but a colony of four minute zooids which cannot live independently, and so they have combined to function together as a unified organism. The characteristic floats wash ashore each summer. Allan's Beach, Otago Peninsula
DSC_0168 Blue-bottle jellyfish (Physalia physalis) tentacles lined with numerous nematocysts that contain the highly toxic venom of the blue bottle. Allan's Beach, Otago Peninsula
