#4975 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Bay Nettle
Chrysaora chesapeakei
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Baltimore, MD, USA
📍 Pleasure House Point NA, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
📍 San Leon, TX, USA
📍 Lido Key, Sarasota, FL 34236, USA
📍 Calvert County, MD, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Bill Keim · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Lawrence Haselmaier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Maria Conchita · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Maria Conchita · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sean P. Myers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Baltimore, MD, USA:© bsteer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Pleasure House Point NA, Virginia Beach, VA, USA:© John G. McHaffie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. San Leon, TX, USA:© Brett Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Lido Key, Sarasota, FL 34236, USA:© campbell29 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Calvert County, MD, USA:© Jared Gorrell · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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.
- 4,453 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Bay Nettle
- scientific name
- Chrysaora chesapeakei
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Pelagiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1
- sightings worldwide
- 4,453
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Pelagiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 742930, Wikidata Q48972832, GBIF 9552507, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.