#5037 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Pacific Sea Nettle
Chrysaora fuscescens
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
Chrysaora fuscescens (commonly known as the Pacific sea nettle or West Coast sea nettle ) is a common free-floating scyphozoan that lives in the East Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico.
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.
- 5,427 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1835 (191 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pacific Sea Nettle
- scientific name
- Chrysaora fuscescens
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Pelagiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,427
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1835 by Johann Friedrich von Brandt
relatives· Pelagiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48479, Wikidata Q1615025, GBIF 5185415, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.