#5008 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Jelly Blubber
Catostylus tagi
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
The Jelly Blubber ( Catostylus tagi ) is a relatively common jellyfish. C. tagi has a collagen in its bell which is currently being researched to see if it has biomedical uses as an intercellular matrix.
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.
- 1,429 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ernst Haeckel in 1869 (157 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Jelly Blubber
- scientific name
- Catostylus tagi
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Rhizostomeae
- family
- Catostylidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,356
- sightings worldwide
- 1,429
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1869 by Ernst Haeckel
relatives· Catostylidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 363872, Wikidata Q3377905, GBIF 2264497, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.