Top Results for Gelatinous

Leptogium cyanescens is a foliose jelly lichen with bluish-gray, wrinkled lobes. Its thallus becomes gelatinous when wet, a characteristic associated with its partnership with cyanobacteria. The species was described by William Nylander in 1856 and is relevant to studies of cyanolichens on bark and...

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...

Leptogium lichenoides is a foliose jelly lichen recognized by its blue-gray, minutely ridged lobes and gelatinous texture when wet, commonly found on mossy soil and rocks.

Collema flaccidum is a foliose jelly lichen containing a cyanobacterial partner. Its dark olive-brown lobes are broad, soft, and heavily wrinkled, and they can become more flexible and gelatinous when wet. The species grows in damp habitats, including mossy rocks, humid bark, and the bases of trees....

Leptogium gelatinosum is a foliose jelly lichen with a cyanobacterial photosynthetic partner. Its lobes are smooth and dark brown when dry, but they become gelatinous, flexible, and partly translucent after thorough wetting. The species can grow on soil, bark, rocks, and other stable surfaces in moi...

Tremoctopus gelatus is a deep-water species of blanket octopus belonging to the family Tremoctopodidae. Like other members of its genus, it exhibits a pelagic lifestyle, drifting through the open ocean rather than residing on the sea floor. The species shares the characteristic extreme sexual size d...

Collema crispum is a gelatinous, foliose lichen now treated in some taxonomic sources under the name Blennothallia crispa. It forms dark green, olive, or nearly black rosettes with broad, overlapping lobes and may produce numerous scale-like isidia that resemble small lobules. It is associated espec...

Collema tenax, currently treated in some sources as Enchylium tenax, is a gelatinous lichen containing a cyanobacterial photobiont. Its dark, tightly attached thallus can become swollen and flexible when wet, a characteristic shared by jelly lichens, and it commonly grows on exposed soil or rock, in...

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...

Lempholemma polyanthes is a small gelatinous cyanolichen whose dark green to black thallus becomes more conspicuous and flexible when wet. It is a calciphile, commonly growing among bryophytes over limestone or calcareous soil, and may also occur on calcareous rock, plant debris, and other basic sur...

Opisthoteuthis agassizii is a deep-sea flapjack octopus of the family Opisthoteuthidae, recorded from the Atlantic Ocean. Verrill described it in 1883 and named it in honor of the naturalist Louis Agassiz. Like other flapjack octopuses, it has a compact, flattened appearance and gelatinous body adap...

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 marine red alga in the family Scinaiaceae. Its thallus is tubular, hollow, gelatinous, and repeatedly forked, with branches that may be pink, red, or purplish and narrow toward the tips. The species grows attached in shallow subtidal or lower shore habitats and has been recor...

Cat's tongue fungus, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum, is a small gelatinous fungus with a pale, soft fruiting body and distinctive tooth-like spines on its underside. It is associated mainly with decaying conifer wood and occurs across parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The species is considered edible, alt...

Cumagloia andersonii is a red alga in the order Nemastomatales. It occurs along the Pacific coast of North America, with a reported range extending from California to British Columbia. The species forms soft, branching thalli with a mucilaginous texture, and it is associated with marine coastal habi...

Yellow brain fungus is the common name for Tremella mesenterica, a gelatinous yellow to orange fungus found on dead or fallen hardwood. It is a parasite of other wood-decaying fungi, especially species that grow inside or on the surface of branches and logs. The fruiting bodies become swollen and tr...

Schizymenia dubyi is a red alga in the family Schizymeniaceae, recorded from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. Its reddish-purple thallus forms gelatinous, undivided blades rather than finely branched or jointed structures. The species is a marine seaweed of subtidal habitats and is identified p...

Fan-shaped Jelly Fungus is the common name used for Dacryopinax spathularia, a small gelatinous fungus with orange coloring and a flattened, fan-like form. It grows on dead wood in tropical and subtropical regions and is used as an edible mushroom in some cuisines. The fungus may also be dried befor...

Dudresnaya verticillata is a red seaweed in the family Dumontiaceae. It has been recorded from Atlantic and Mediterranean marine environments, where it grows in subtidal coastal habitats. The species has attracted botanical attention because of the detailed structure and development of its carpospor...

Predaea huismanii is a marine red alga in the family Nemastomataceae. Kraft described it in 1984 from material collected by phycologist John M. Huisman at Rottnest Island, Western Australia; later records placed it beyond the type locality, including the Canary Islands and other Indo-Pacific sites....