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Title: Jellyfish Lake, Indonesia
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A moon jelly (Aurelia aurita) swims in front of an aggregation of stingless golden jellyfish (Mastigias sp.) in a landlocked marine lake in the middle of an island. Their golden colour comes from endosymbiotic algae, which provide nutrition for the medusae, as long as the jellies stay in the sun. Farondi Islands, Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Tropical West Pacific Ocean.
- Bird's Head Seascape
- Ceram Sea
- Cnidarians: Cnidaria
- coral reef
- Farondi Islands
- golden jellyfish: Mastigias sp.
- Indonesia
- Invertebrates
- Jellyfishes: Scyphozoans: Scyphozoa
- Marine Life
- Misool
- Misool Marine Protected Area
- moon jelly: Aurelia aurita
- Pacific Ocean
- Raja Ampat
- South East Asia
- tropical
- West Papua
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