A diver has captured a video of a strange looking Jellyfish off the coast of the country.
The video was taken in the New Ireland province of the country ofPNG.
Borcherds, who has been diving in the area for more than two decades, saw about three or four of the jellyfish and was struck by their intricate detail and how they moved through the water.
He doesn't know how they do that.
He sent the footage to his wife in South Africa who uploaded it to the Jellyfish app.
The app's purpose is to answer the age-old question of what is that blob and should I pee on it.
She said she could barely contain her excitement after seeing this one. I nearly fell out of my chair.
Gershwin thought the footage was the second occurrence of the Chirodectes maculatus, which was found on the Great Barrier Reef.
Gershwin's paper on the species classification is yet to be reviewed by peers.
It could be a new species, but it wouldn't be possible to know for certain based on a video.
She said a researcher needed to hold the animal in their hand to be sure of its species.
She said that it would be great if the specimen could be described and tested.
Prof Jamie Seymour, a toxicologist from James Cook University who specializes in Australia's venomous animals, believes that Gershwin's earlier theory is correct.
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Gershwin helped reclassify Chirodectes maculatus, which has only been seen once off the coast of far northQueensland.
She said it was a mystery where the animal came from. She thought the video could answer her question. The originalJellyfish specimen was kept in theQueensland museum, where she enlisted the help of Peter Davie.
The jellyfish was larger than a soccer ball and different from something that could fit in your hand, as the pair looked over the footage from the frame by frame.
They decided it was probably a new species ofJellyfish, similar to the one seen in 1997.
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