Helpful Gelatinous Links

These links to other gelatinous sites should provide a good start in your quest to learn about these creatures.  Please remember that material presented in these sites is not the property of the JelliesZone - do not copy images or information without permission from the site owners. 

Alien Stingers  Jellies invade the New York Aquarium

The Appalachian Mountain Jellyfish  We're not making this up !

The Bluebottle or Portuguese Man-of-War  The Australian Museum Online presents an informative profile about this nasty gelatinous beast

The Bioluminescent Page   They glow in the dark !

Cassiopea   Add the upside-down jelly to the list of introduced nuisance species

Catalogue of Life: Cnidaria  Here's the place to do some gift shopping

Chesapeake Bay Jellies  Cool jellies from the East Coast

Class Scyphozoa  Scyphozoan jellies from the waters of Massachusetts (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole)

Claudia Mills Home Page  Learn more about hydromedusae, comb jellies and others

Cnidaria Home Page  A scientific site devoted to cnidarians, the phylum that includes jellyfish, corals and anemones

Cnidarians  More about some tropical jellies and their coral relatives (from the Waikiki Aquarium)

CnidBase  Cnidarian Evolutionary Genomics Database

Ctenophores from the São Sebastião Channel  Brazil's comb jelly menagerie

Descent into Monterey Submarine Canyon  Take a virtual journey into Monterey Canyon and see some midwater jellies along the way

Dockwatch  You can be part of a research program keeping track of jellies in the Gulf of Mexico at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama

European Appendicularians  You probably don't know much about larvaceans.  Go to this site to help change that

Explore the Abyss  View images of a variety of deep-water organisms, including gelatinous species, by marine biologist and photographer Peter Batson

Fossil Holoplanktonic Mollusca  See what pteropods and heteropods have been up to in prehistoric times 

Freshwater Jellyfish  Yikes, they're in lakes and ponds too!  Don't worry though - read about them here

Gulf of Mexico Jellies  A guide to some of the more common jellies in the Gulf of Mexico, from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Image Quest 3-D  Scientific photography at its best, by Peter Parks, including great photos of jellyfish and other plankton

Introduction to Ctenophora   Comb jelly information, from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)

Introduction to Cubozoa  Learn more about fearsome box jellies (from UCMP)

Introduction to Scyphozoa  More information on scyphozoan jellies (from UCMP)

Irukandji  Australia's invisible killer

Jellies Down Deep   A revealing look at studies of deep-water jellies, including links to video clips (from the American Museum of Natural History)

Jellies: Living Art   See jellies in a different light, from the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jellyfish Envenomations  A bit technical, but more than you ever wanted to know about jellyfish stings

Jellyfish Sting Newsletter   Index to research papers featuring gelatinous stingers

Jellyfish Videos  Links to a variety of jellyfish video clips - see them in action

Jewels of the Sea  Oregon Coast Aquarium's view of the gelatinous world

LINK Information Service  Use the search function to access abstracts of recent research appearing in numerous scientific journals published by Springer 

Living Lights   Information on bioluminescence from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution

Mapping Sea Nettles  Look here if you want to find out where sea nettles are in Chesapeake Bay

Marine-medic.com  All about medical aspects of jellyfish, from the king of sting

Marine Notes   Sea nettles not welcome in Maryland !

Medusozoa  Learn from a true lover of jellyfish, including how to preserve and ship specimens

Mnemiopsis  This innocent looking comb jelly is a marine pest in Australia

Mnemiopsis  More about the natural history of this ecologically important comb jelly 

Nanomia  Learn more about this siphonophore, and view a cool animation of its swimming and feeding behavior (from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution)

Oceana  Your gateway to what's going on to protect the world's oceans

Pelagic Zone   Jellies and other creatures of the pelagic realm in Monterey Bay

Pet Fish Talk  Mike Morgano from the New York Aquarium talks about the Alien Stingers exhibit

Phantoms of the Deep  Jellies at the Aquarium of the Pacific (in Long Beach)

Phyllorhiza  The white-spotted jelly, an Australian native, has become a nuisance in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and Hawaii

Phylogeny of Pelagiidae  The latest from the world of sea nettles and purple-stripe jellies

Pictures of Plankton  Steve Haddock's view of the gelatinous world

Plankton  A selection of great plankton photos, including some gelatinous species

The Plankton Net  Anything you ever wanted to learn about plankton, and more

The Scyphozoan   Dedicated to all aspects of the biology of scyphozoan jellies, with a section that permits contributions on taxonomy, behavior, ecology, evolution and biogeography, along with images

Sea Challengers  The place to find all kinds of marine-related books

Sea Science - Jellyfish  East Coast jellies, brought to you by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Sea Lice  More mayhem from our gelatinous friends

Sea Walnut  It may look innocent, but this comb jelly has a dark side

Siphonophores  Learn more about these predatory masters of the midwater

Stinging Jellyfish  A rogues gallery of nasty jellies, with information on modes of stinging action and medical treatments

Tree of Life  Where do jellies fit in?

Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit  Researchers at Australia's James Cook University present a wealth of information on dangerous box jellies, including videos

Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island and McMurdo Sound  Chill out with jellyfish and other cnidarians from Antarctica

Venomous Hawaiian Organisms   Stingers in the Aloha State