#4852 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Blue Jelly
🇳🇱 Blauwe haarkwal ·Cyanea lamarckii
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Netherlands
📍 4493 Kamperland, Nederland
📍 Westvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 1796 De Koog, Nederland
📍 1871 PB Schoorl, Niederlande
📍 1871 GH Niederlande
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © danolsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © tiplog · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jaro Guzinski · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Netherlands:© Gaël · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 4493 Kamperland, Nederland:© wendelmar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Westvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 1796 De Koog, Nederland:© marisnocatpiss · CC BY 4.0
- 9. 1871 PB Schoorl, Niederlande:© repa22 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 1871 GH Niederlande:© repa22 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cyanea lamarckii , also known as the blue jellyfish or bluefire jellyfish , is a species of jellyfish in the family Cyaneidae. Populations in the western Pacific around Japan are sometimes distinguished as Cyanea nozakii or Cyanea capillata nozakii .
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
- Spotted 321 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #6 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 3,622 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Blue Jelly
- Nederlands
- Blauwe haarkwal
- scientific name
- Cyanea lamarckii
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Cyaneidae
- sightings in NL
- 321
- sightings in Europe
- 3,332
- sightings worldwide
- 3,622
- GBIF records in NL
- 25,293
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Cyaneidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 447777, Wikidata Q774838, GBIF 5720764, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.