Drymonema larsoni

"Pink meanie" redirects here. For the related species of jellyfish occasionally known by that name, see Drymonema dalmatinum.

Drymonema larsoni (also known as the "pink meanie") is a species of jellyfish belonging to the class Scyphozoa. Following a mass sighting in 2000 in the Gulf of Mexico, the species and the rest of its genus were put in their own family, a new subset of the true jellyfish. ^[1] They were originally thought to be a member of the same family as the lion's mane jellyfish, Cyanea capillata Linnaeus, but they were shown to have morphological and molecular differences. ^[2] Drymonema larsoni prey heavily upon jellyfish species belonging to the genus Aurelia, and they play an important role in controlling the population of these species.^[3]

Drymonema larsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Scyphozoa
Order:	Semaeostomeae
Family:	Drymonematidae
Genus:	Drymonema
Species:	D. larsoni
Binomial name
Drymonema larsoni Bayha & Dawson, 2010