| Family: |
Rhizostomatidae () |
| Max. size: |
90 cm WD (male/unsexed) |
| Environment: |
pelagic; marine; depth range 0 - 40 m |
| Distribution: |
Mediterranean and Black Sea: from Alboran Sea to Libya in the Mediterranean, east to Russia and north to Ukraine, Black Sea. |
| Diagnosis: |
Diameter of about 60 cm, exceptionally 90 cm. The sunshade is very bent, sometimes even higher than broad; the periphery is deprived of tentacles, replaced by approximately 80-90 lobes distributed on the entire circumference. One counts 8 very long oral; only braided arms towards their base; and comprising with milonguor of the appendices dermic in the cauliflower shape, while the ends smooth and are not ramified. Color: blue; yellow or pink milky; blue lobes ombrellaires with purple darker. |
| Biology: |
Largest in the Mediterranean, is rather not very irritant: the cnidocytes are slightly poisonous and do not transpierce the human skin; there is thus no risk of lesion. Euryhaline species (Ref. 122857). Found in a river estuary (Ref. 122860) and coastal lagoons (Refs. 81044, 122857). Abundant inshore but also found offshore (Ref. 122861). |
| IUCN Red List Status: |
Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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| Threat to humans: |
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