#4988 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Fried Egg Jelly
🇳🇱 Spiegeleikwal ·Cotylorhiza tuberculata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marek Koszorek · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Thomas Menut · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Stergios Vasilis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Stergios Vasilis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Stergios Vasilis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © vedralan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Thomas Menut · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cotylorhiza tuberculata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the Mediterranean jelly or fried egg jellyfish . It is commonly found in the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea and Adriatic Sea. It can reach 35 cm in diameter. It seems that this jellyfish's sting has very little or no effect on humans.
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.
- 2,766 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Saverio Macrì in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Fried Egg Jelly
- Nederlands
- Spiegeleikwal
- scientific name
- Cotylorhiza tuberculata
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Rhizostomeae
- family
- Cepheidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2,317
- sightings worldwide
- 2,766
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Saverio Macrì
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324852, Wikidata Q2004162, GBIF 2264578, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.