#4966 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Greater Moon Jelly
Aurelia labiata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
Aurelia labiata is a species of moon jellyfish in the genus Aurelia . It is a cnidarian of the Ulmaridae family. It is known to be larger than Aurelia aurita .
base stats
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.
- 7,953 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Greater Moon Jelly
- scientific name
- Aurelia labiata
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Ulmaridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1
- sightings worldwide
- 7,953
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Ulmaridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130235, Wikidata Q3382235, GBIF 5185432, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.