#5059 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Southern Moon Jelly
Aurelia marginalis
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
Aurelia marginalis (commonly called the southern moon jelly ) is a species of the genus Aurelia. All species in the genus are very similar, and it is difficult to identify Aurelia medusae without genetic sampling.
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.
- 3,487 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Moon Jelly
- scientific name
- Aurelia marginalis
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Ulmaridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,487
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
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relatives· Ulmaridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 986245, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.