Talk:Lion's mane jellyfish

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Any objections to changing the title to lower case? cf Portuguese man o' war. Markalexander100 04:58, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Well, that's a tricky subject. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life#Article titles and common names and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life/Archive4#Common_Names for justification. Uppercase titles are (as far as I know) the agreed upon style for organisms with formal names, which helps prevent any potential ambiguities (the example given in one of the links above being "common sparrow" versus "Common Sparrow". Uppercase names aren't unheard of, especially in field guides and the like. -- Hadal 05:07, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Oh dear- I don't want to walk into a hornet's nest. (or a Hornet's?} For the moment I've lower-cased the other critters mentioned (lion, medusafish and so on). I'm sure lion should be lower-case, but not so sure about the fish. Markalexander100 05:28, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

If it's "it is rarely seen farther south than Washington state." what are they doing off the coast of Australia? I think the state description should be replaced by something more accurate.Lisiate 20:33, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

I think the opening paragraph's quite clear: there's one population of big jellyfish which lives in the eastern Pacific, north of Washington state; there's another population near Australia. These populations may be part of the same species, but they may not. Markalexander100 01:45, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

While we're on the subject, it's a rather Americanocentric way of putting it. How about 'south of 45 degrees north'. They're definitely all -called- the Lion's Mane Jellyfish.

I haven't a clue where 45 degrees north is, and I suspect nor do most people. These things (apparently) spend most of their one year in deep water, then move to coastal waters. That implies that the northern Pacific ones must tend to live either on the American coast, or on the Asian coast. Does anyone know if there are any on the Asian side? If so, we can give a more helpful reference for the Asian coast too (e.g. south of Japan). Markalexander100 03:31, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

well, personally, I was talking about the British(European?) Population, the one I'm most familar with, that inhabits the Irish sea.

The article already says where those ones live- I don't see how we can make it any clearer. Given that no-one is quite sure what a Lion's Mane Jellyfish is, this article's never going to be neat. Markalexander100 07:13, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've changed it to 42°N; just "Washington" is not very helpful. It occurs throughout the North Atlantic, on the US side south to Woods Hole, Mass (at 42°N) and the European side south to about 50°N, as well as the Pacific. For the Asian Pacific, googling found a report from Hong Kong, but it is a rarity there, not regular. - MPF 11:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

A new picture of a Lion's Mane Jellyfish has turned up on the Luminous Landscape web site. Although it includes other details, it is a remarkable photograph of this creature. It may be worth contacting the owner of this photo for permission to use this or another photo (if he has one) of the jellyfish to compliment this page.

[edit] tentacle length

30 meters? Where is the scientific citation for it? If it is only this link, then that is hardly an official report. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

The "Guiness Book of World Records" has the same facts in them. It has been confirmed the bell had a diameter of 7 feet 6 inches and the tentacles reached 120 feet. It washed up in Massachusetts Bay in 1870. The record length was also stated on an episode of Nature (TV series); the 2006 show that focused on the California Monterey Bay Aquarium and talked about jellyfish, (narrated by Peter Coyote).20:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk

[edit] TV quiz show

On the television show QI with Stephen Fry, the answer to one of the questions was that the Lion's Mane Jellyfish was the longest creature in the world. If this is true, it should probably be in here. I have found some indications elsewhere on the internet that indicate this might be true, with the largest specimens clocking in at just a little more than the biggest blue whale.

TV quiz show as a source? I don't think so. -- Donald Albury 15:49, 24 November 2006 (UTC)