#4967 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Egg-yolk Jelly
Phacellophora camtschatica
📍 Port Townsend, WA
📍 Craddock Beach, Pender Island, B.C, Canada
📍 Queen Charlotte Strait, Mount Waddington, BC, CA
📍 The Bowl of Edmonds, Edmonds, WA 98020, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Zach Hawn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Zach Hawn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Dave Slager · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michael Bear · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © by and by · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 7. Port Townsend, WA:© Wendy Feltham · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Craddock Beach, Pender Island, B.C, Canada:© Karolle Wall · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Queen Charlotte Strait, Mount Waddington, BC, CA:© Melissa Foo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. The Bowl of Edmonds, Edmonds, WA 98020, USA:© Josh Houston · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Phacellophora camtschatica , known as the fried egg jellyfish or the egg-yolk jellyfish , is a very large jellyfish, with a bell up to 60 cm (2 ft) in diameter and 16 clusters of up to a few dozen tentacles, each up to 6 m (20 ft) long. It has traditionally been included in the family Ulmaridae, but is now considered the only member of the family Phacellophoridae .
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.
- 7,203 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1835 (191 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Egg-yolk Jelly
- scientific name
- Phacellophora camtschatica
- class
- Scyphozoa
- order
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Phacellophoridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3
- sightings worldwide
- 7,203
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1835 by Johann Friedrich von Brandt
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 52966, Wikidata Q2352335, GBIF 2264449, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.