Creatures from the Keehi Lagoon

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Experts are on a quest to
identify the tiny stinging jellyfish
that could be a new species
By Diana Leone
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The tiny jellyfish that have been stinging canoe paddlers in Keehi Lagoon could be members of an undiscovered species, some local experts said yesterday.

The creatures may have lived in Keehi Lagoon all along and never blossomed to current numbers. Or they may have gotten transported to Hawaii from another place.

But there doesn't seem to be any scientific record of them in Hawaii, the experts said.

University of Hawaii coral specialist Cindy Hunter and Bishop Museum invertebrate zoologist Lu Eldredge have not been able to identify the creatures any more precisely than to say they're members of the hydrozoa class of jellyfish during the free-swimming stage of their lives.
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