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Opisthoteuthis californiana is a deep-sea cephalopod commonly called a flapjack octopus and classified within the family Opisthoteuthidae. It has a soft, gelatinous body, a web connecting its arms, and a pair of small fins; when resting, its flattened form contributes to the common name. It inhabits...

A deep-water open-ocean blanket octopus (family Tremoctopodidae) closely related to T. violaceus and sharing the same extreme sexual size dimorphism characteristic of the genus.

The ragfish, Icosteus aenigmaticus, is a large, gelatinous-bodied marine fish found in the North Pacific Ocean. It is the sole living species commonly placed in the family Icosteidae, and adults retain a largely cartilaginous skeleton instead of the extensively ossified bones typical of most teleost...

Opisthoteuthis agassizii is a deep-sea flapjack octopus found in the Atlantic Ocean, described by Verrill in 1883 and named in honor of naturalist Louis Agassiz.

Red alga (Halymeniales) native to Australian waters, belonging to a large pantropical genus widely used as a food source and investigated for bioactive compounds.

Scinaia furcellata is a red alga (Galaxauraceae) found in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, characterized by its dichotomously branched, hollow, gelatinous thallus.

Cat's Tongue Fungus (Pseudohydnum gelatinosum) is an edible gelatinous fungus with soft tooth-like spines on its underside, widespread in coniferous forests of the Northern Hemisphere.

Red alga (Nemastomatales) native to the Pacific coast of North America from California to British Columbia, noted for its soft, mucilaginous, branching thallus.

Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) is a gelatinous bright yellow fungus growing on dead hardwood worldwide, used in traditional Chinese cuisine and herbal medicine for centuries.

Schizymenia dubyi is a red alga of the family Schizymeniaceae occurring in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, recognized by its gelatinous, undivided, reddish-purple blades.

Fan-shaped Jelly Fungus (Dacryopinax spathularia) is a small orange fan-shaped edible jelly fungus growing on dead wood, found across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.

Dudresnaya verticillata is a red alga of the family Dumontiaceae studied since the 1800s for its unusually complex carposporophyte development in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

Predaea huismanii is a red alga of the family Nemastomataceae named after Australian phycologist John Huisman and described from specimens collected in the Indo-Pacific.