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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 ...
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.
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]
Morbakka virulenta is a species of box jellyfish that is found in waters near the islands of Japan. The species was originally described in the genus Tamoya by Kamakichi Kishinouye in 1910. However, unlike other species of that genus, this jellyfish did not have the vertical gastric phacellae (gastric filaments used for digestion) which protect ...
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 ...
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Chrysaora africana, the purple compass jelly, is a species of jellyfish from the family Pelagiidae. [2] [3] Found in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean from Gabon to the western coast of South Africa (although uncommon in the far south of its range), [3] its taxonomy has historically caused considerable confusion.