| Specimen ID | 1652433 |
| Group | Coelenterates-Hydrozoans |
| Genus | Craspedacusta |
| Species | sowerbii |
| Common Name | freshwater jellyfish |
| State | CT |
| County | Fairfield |
| Locality | Green Pond, Sherman, Connecticut, 06784 |
| Mapping Accuracy | Accurate |
| HUC8 Name | Housatonic |
| HUC8 Number | 01100005 |
| HUC10 Name | Candlewood Lake-Housatonic River |
| HUC10 Number | 0110000506 |
| HUC12 Name | Candlewood Lake |
| HUC12 Number | 011000050601 |
| Map | |
| Collection Day | 8 |
| Collection Month | 9 |
| Collection Year | 2020 |
| Year Accuracy | Actual |
| Potential Pathway | hitch hiker with stocked fish | hitch hiker on aquatic plants |
| Status | established |
| Comments | Swimming around Green Pond's circumference every summer for the past 20 years, I have observed (except for the past 3 years) and twice collected specimens. On Sept. 8, 2020 I counted 250. I have not always observed them in the same place, but it seems most often over the deepest parts of the pond, whichg I estimate to be 20-30 feet deep. That Green Pond is 200 feet above the surrounding man-made (1920s) lake and is spring fed, it is not obvious how the jelly fish arrived at the pond from the Yangtze River. western parts of pond about 1-2 feet below surface. Temperature 78-80 degrees F. |
| Record Type | NAS sighting report |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
| Number Collected | 250 |
