Cotylorhiza tuberculata

Cotylorhiza tuberculata
Mediterranean Jellyfish - Cotylorhiza tuberculata
Mediterranean jelly
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Rhizostomeae
Family: Cepheidae
Genus: Cotylorhiza
Species: C. tuberculata
Binomial name
Cotylorhiza tuberculata
(Macri, 1778)
Synonyms

Medusa tuberculata
Cassiopea borbonica
Cephea tuberculata
Cotylorhiza microtuberculata
Mediterranean Jellyfish from the Adriatic sea

Cotylorhiza tuberculata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the Mediterranean jelly or fried egg jellyfish. It is commonly found in the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea and Adriatic Sea. It can reach 35 cm in diameter. It seems that this jellyfish's sting has very little or no effect on humans.

Description

Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata)
Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

C. tuberculata is usually less than 17 cm wide. The smooth, elevated dome is surrounded by a gutter-like ring. The marginal lappets are elongated and subrectangular. Each mouth-arm bifurcates near its base and branches several times. In addition to some larger appendages there are many short, club-shaped ones that bear disk-like ends.[1]

Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kramp 1961

References


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