# Id this jellyfish

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-jellyfish/587775>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-jellyfish/587775 "2011-07-04T02:58:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-jellyfish/587775/1 "2011-07-04T02:58:50Z")

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If you can identify what specifically it is (found on Ocracoke Island, NC):

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**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-jellyfish/587775/2 "2011-07-04T06:27:06Z")

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I’m guessing [_Stomolophus meleagris_](http://www.jaxshells.org/1107ss.htm) (aka “Cannonball Jellyfish”). They do seem to [show up in North Carolina](http://www.jellyfish.appstate.edu/map/node) this time of year.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-jellyfish/587775/3 "2011-07-04T08:54:27Z")

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Oh, idding a jellyfish is easy. Egoing and superegoing one, however, involves precisely the kind of neural transplantation that that will cause those fools at the Academy to ship you off to Montana with nary a scalpel to your name.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-jellyfish/587775/4 "2011-07-04T12:09:41Z")

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Thank you!