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Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia. [1] It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, [3] [4] but other common names are purple-striped jelly (causing potential confusion with Chrysaora colorata), [5] purple stinger, purple people eater, [6] purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish and night-light ...
During the day the medusae will attach themselves with the adhesive patches on their tentacles to various surfaces, especially seagrass, earning the species its common name clinging jellyfish. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Gonionemus vertens may catch prey when attached to surfaces during the day, but they mostly feed at night in open water, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] eating ...
A scale illustration of an Irukandji jellyfish and its tentacles.Below the jelly's medusa bell are two polyp forms of the species.. Irukandji jellyfish are very small, with a bell about 5 millimetres (0.20 in) to 25 millimetres (0.98 in) wide and four long tentacles, which range in length from just a few centimetres up to 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length.
Most of the large, often colorful, and conspicuous jellyfish found in coastal waters throughout the world are Scyphozoa. [4] They typically range from 2 to 40 cm (1 to 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter, but the largest species, Cyanea capillata can reach 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) across. Scyphomedusae are found throughout the world's oceans, from the ...
Stygiomedusa gigantea, [a] commonly known as the giant phantom jelly, is the only species in the monotypic genus of deep sea jellyfish, Stygiomedusa. It is in the Ulmaridae family . [ 2 ] With only around 110 sightings in 110 years, it is a jellyfish that is rarely seen, but believed to be widespread throughout the world, with the exception of ...
They come in many different colors the most common are brown, clear, and blue. [3] They are found around Africa, Australia, Spain, and South Asia. A few have also been spotted near the equator in the Americas. [8] Sunfish, tuna, spiny dogfish, and sea turtles feed on many jellyfish of the Catostylidae family. [9]
Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America.. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved in bioluminescence.
Chrysaora colorata (Russell), commonly known as the purple-striped jelly or purple-striped sea nettle, is a species of jellyfish that exists primarily off the coast of California from Bodega Bay to San Diego. [1] The bell (body) of the jellyfish is up to 70 cm (2.3 ft) in diameter, typically with a radial pattern of stripes.