038 - Deep-sea jellies with George Matsumoto

The Professor is back on land and Dr Thom is back from Squid Christmas, what a better time to talk about the squishiest of deep sea critters? We talk with George Matsumoto from MBARI all about gelatinous deep sea species. How do we study them? How on earth can we preserve them or even capture their fragile bodies? Plus, we find out exactly what that curious little blue spiky blob was.

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Fragments from beyond our solar system found in the Pacific:

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Oarfish is spotted which is ‘twice the size of peter crouch’

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/divers-discover-huge-deep-sea-30467032

Cookie cutters sharks go to town on a swordfish:

https://www.instagram.com/tkoffshorefishing/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=f7ed8cc8-e207-4684-9ddd-099458087401

Dumbo octopus seen to migrate opposite to diel vertical migration in order to find prey:

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-deep-sea-imagery-reveal-octopus-behavior.html

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Guest links - George Matsumoto

MBARI's internship program - https://www.mbari.org/about/careers/internships/

MBARI's Deep-Sea Guide - http://dsg.mbari.org/dsg/home

MBARI's animals of the deep - https://www.mbari.org/education/animals-of-the-deep/

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papers

Matsumoto, G.I., L.M. Christianson, B.H. Robison, S.H.D. Haddock, and S.B. Johnson. 2022. Atolla reynoldsi sp. nov. (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Coronatae, Atollidae): A new species of coronate scyphozoan found in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Animals, 12(6): 742. doi.org/10.3390/ani12060742

Matsumoto, G.I., B. Bentlage, R. Sherlock, K. Walz, and B.H. Robison. 2019. “Little Red Jellies” in Monterey Bay, California (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Trachymedusae: Rhopalonematidae). Frontiers in Marine Science 6: doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00798

Raskoff, K.A. and G.I. Matsumoto. 2004. Stellamedusa ventana, a new mesopelagic scyphomedusae from the eastern Pacific representing a new subfamily, the Stellamedusinae. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84(4274):1-6.DOI:10.1017/S0025315404008884h

Matsumoto, G.I, K.A. Raskoff, and D. Lindsay. 2003. Tiburonia granrojo, a new mesopelagic scyphomedusa from the Pacific Ocean representing the type of a new subfamily (Class Scyphozoa, Order Semaeostomeae, Family Ulmaridae, Subfamily Tiburoniiae subfam nov.). Marine Biology. 143 (1): 73-77. DOI:10.1007/s00227-003-1047-2

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