Resembled pieces of jelly in the sand, but when I poked it with my flip flops they emitted bright lines along the body rhythmically in response to the stimulus. Found six specimens, with more or less the same size. It was a full moon and low tide night.
Looks so much like an alien coming straight from Pandora...
Observed 2 miles offshore, 25' below the surface
Some Cnidarian ( I think) that was clear, about 3 inches long, and bioluminescent. I found it in a bay at Long Beach Island. also, I have a video, but I don't know how to upload it.
The Ctenophora (pronounced /tɨˈnÉ’fÉ™rÉ™/, singular ctenophore, pronounced /ˈtÉ›nÉ™fÉâ€Ã‰â„¢r/ or /ˈtiËÂnÉ™fÉâ€Ã‰â„¢r/), commonly known as comb jellies, are a phylum of animals that live in marine waters worldwide. Their most distinctive feature is the "combs", groups of cilia that they use for swimming, and they are the largest animals that swim by means of cilia  adults of various species range from a few millimeters to 1.5 meters (59 in) in size. Like cnidarians, their bodies consist of a mass...