#4969 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Mauve Stinger
🇳🇱 Parelkwal ·Pelagia noctiluca
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Τήνος 842 00, Ελλάδα
📍 Σαρωνικός Κόλπος, Vouliagmeni, East Attica, GR
📍 Κρήτη, Ελλάδα
📍 Girona, ES-CT, ES
📍 Seine Cove, Halifax, NS, CA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Seawater · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jose Miguel Uña · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © josepvilanova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Melissa Carlson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Τήνος 842 00, Ελλάδα:© ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ Βιδαλης · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Σαρωνικός Κόλπος, Vouliagmeni, East Attica, GR:© raphaelthe1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Κρήτη, Ελλάδα:© fotis-samaritakis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Girona, ES-CT, ES:© Yves Bas · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Seine Cove, Halifax, NS, CA:© Hunter Stevens · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae. In Latin, pelagia means "of the sea", nocti stands for night and luca means light; thus, Pelagia noctiluca can be described as a marine organism with the ability to glow in the dark.
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.
- 6,422 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Forsskål in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mauve Stinger
- Nederlands
- Parelkwal
- scientific name
- Pelagia noctiluca
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Pelagiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,846
- sightings worldwide
- 6,422
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Peter Forsskål
relatives· Pelagiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 256089, Wikidata Q1354572, GBIF 2264423, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.