Red-Eye Medusa sink-fishing

Red-eye Medusa: See the red eyespots / ocelli giving this species its name? These can sense light, to help the jelly know which way is up.

The stomach is in the middle and the gonads are the elongate organs surrounding that.This one is "sink fishing" - tentacles extended to catch planktonic prey either by hanging stationary in the water column or slowly sinking.

Red-eye Medusas also feed on the seafloor, perching on their tentacles, sometimes hopping – believed to help stir up prey and/or move to a new location (Mills et al. 2007).

Polyorchis penicillatus has up to 160 tentacles (more often ~100). Height of bell to 10 cm.

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