Can you ID this jellyfish?

In Mexico this summer we came across a nice jellyfish and scientist/videographer Bruce Carlson caught some footage.  I admit that Scyphozoans are a real weak point for me.  Can anyone identify this for us?

Elegant little thing, right? See more videos on my YouTube channel

A Parasite a Day, keeps the Doctor in pay

My colleague Susan Perkins at AMNH has a most excellent blog that features a different parasite every day for a year.  Since the oceans have more parasites than anywhere else by far, many of her feature critters are marine.  Check out some of these marine beasties, then enjoy the rest of the collection.  There's a new one every day.

Crepidostomum cooperi - a digenean (fluke) parasite of fish
Nasitrema globicephalae - a digenean parasite of the sinuses of whales
Cyamus ovalis - isopod parasites often called "whale lice"
Maritrema novaezealandensis - an important model digenean from New Zealand mudflat animals
Polypodium hydriforme - a weird parasitic jellyfish relative that lives on sturgeon eggs, and:
Dolops sp., -  a type of Branchiuran (related to crustaceans) parasitic on piranha

Ah, well it all makes sense now...

You guys are a bunch of blissed-out freaks (and I mean that in the nicest possible way).  I couldn't figure out how you all knew that Bit-o-critter 6 was Chrysaora colorata, but then I found this link suggesting that watching jellyfish undulate is as good as Xanax for chilling you out. That's how you knew right?

Of course, they also recommend pole-dancing.

The solution to Bit-o-critter round 6

I thought Round 6 of bit-o-critter might be hard, but apparently I was wrong.  It seems that you guys know your jellyfish.  Heather was first to identify the beast as the striped jelly Chrysaora colorata, and she was supported by DSN guru Kevin Zelnio and Wildernets.

Of course...

Muhuhuhuhahaha....