common jellyfish
Aurelia aurita
Category: Jellyfish
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Scyphozoa
- Order
- Semaeostomeae
- Family
- Ulmaridae
- Genus
- Aurelia
Where to Find
Found in 19 diving areas across 10 countries and 5 regions.
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 1 records
- Bornholm, Denmark - 25 records
- North Sea Coast, Denmark - 16 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 445 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 156 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 72 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 42 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 57 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 72 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 107 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 59 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 136 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 1 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 2 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 32 records
- Alaska, United States - 24 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 2 records