#5067 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Blue Blubber Jelly
Catostylus mosaicus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Matty Testoni · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Peter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Lucy Smiechura · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Peter Campbell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ken · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © gailhampshire · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The jelly blubber ( Catostylus mosaicus ), also known as the blue blubber jellyfish , is a species of jellyfish from coastal regions in the Indo-Pacific. It is the most commonly encountered jellyfish along the Australian eastern coast and large swarms sometimes appear in estuarine waters.
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.
- 2,666 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Blue Blubber Jelly
- scientific name
- Catostylus mosaicus
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Rhizostomeae
- family
- Catostylidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,666
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Catostylidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 333776, Wikidata Q2709311, GBIF 2264506, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.