This jellyfish has a better light show than the Disco Clam! The Monterey Bay Aquarium tells us a little about the lobed comb jelly:
Comb
jellies are beautiful, oval-shaped animals with eight rows of tiny
comblike plates that they beat to move themselves through the water. As
they swim, the comb rows diffract light to produce a shimmering, rainbow
effect. Voracious predators on other jellies, some can expand their
stomachs to hold prey nearly half their own size.
Yep, disco cannibals. Which would make a great movie title or band name.
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