Leucothea pulchra
Distribution:
Central California to the Gulf of California.
Habitat:
Surface to about 200 m.
Size:
Up to 250 mm.
Diet:
Mostly copepods and other small zooplankton.
Useful Facts or Characters:
Body is oblong, covered with brownish-orange papillae, very delicate. The body coloration is translucent white, with distinctive orange papillae along the
outer surface.
References:
http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/Ctenophores.html
video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_briJzDLQ
Matsumoto, G.I. (1988) A new species of lobate ctenophore, Leucothea pulchra sp. nov. from the California Bight. Journal of Plankton Research 10: 301-311.