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#5051 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co

Victoria's Crystal Jelly

Aequorea victoria

🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Em Lim · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Dave Suszcynsky · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Wendy Feltham · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Eric Running · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
  9. 9. © Zach Hawn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Victoria's Crystal Jelly, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 4,203iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 4,203 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Victoria's Crystal Jelly
scientific name
Aequorea victoria
class
Hydrozoa
order
Leptothecata
family
Aequoreidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
4,203
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 325995, Wikidata Q133055, GBIF 2267514, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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