Leucothea pulchra

Taxon-Order: 
Lobata

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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.