Common
Crown jelly
Atolla wyvillei
Fires a spinning ring of light when startled by the sub.
Zone 02 · Overview
In the midnight zone nothing is collected. Every record is optical: a slow submersible transect, red light only, and hours of footage annotated frame by frame. Most of what we log has no common name yet.
Gelatinous fauna surveyed by low-lux cameras, catalogued without ever surfacing a specimen.
Associated species
Data poor
Glass squid
Teuthowenia pellucida
Nearly invisible except for two counter-illuminating eyes.
Data poor
Siphonophore chain
Praya dubia
Colonies measured past 30 m along a single drifting line.
Network updates
15 AugNode D2Nine-hour drift transect logged; 34 unmatched morphotypes queued.
07 AugNode D4Red-light array recalibrated to reduce startle responses.
18 JulNode D1First confirmed sighting of a juvenile crown jelly at 3,150 m.
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