This jellyfish is so rare that it has only been captured on camera twice, in 1997 and 2022

Updated on May 17, 2024November 12, 2022

The first Chirodectes maculatus was captured and examined in 1997. This is only the second known documentation of this rare type of jellyfish, Chriodectes. Very little is known about it.

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