#5036 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Pacific Lion's Mane Jelly
Cyanea ferruginea
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
📍 College Inlet, Alaska Coast
📍 Nanaimo, BC, Canada
📍 Retreat Cove, Galiano Island, B.C.
📍 Camano, WA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paul Norwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © maxmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © elizabethkaufmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Dave Heiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Wyatt Patry · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © John D Reynolds · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. College Inlet, Alaska Coast:© jimminycrickket · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Nanaimo, BC, Canada:© KJ · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Retreat Cove, Galiano Island, B.C.:© Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Camano, WA, USA:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Cyanea ferruginea , also known as the Pacific Lion Mane Jellyfish , is a species of jellyfish commonly found south of the polar region and the Bering Sea.
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.
- 5,685 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Pacific Lion's Mane Jelly
- scientific name
- Cyanea ferruginea
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Cyaneidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,685
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Cyaneidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 786996, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.