mauve stinger
Pelagia noctiluca
Category: Jellyfish
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Scyphozoa
- Order
- Semaeostomeae
- Family
- Pelagiidae
- Genus
- Pelagia
Where to Find
Found in 21 diving areas across 11 countries and 5 regions.
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Corsica, France - 80 records
- Marseille & Calanques, France - 1 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 69 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 5 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 102 records
- Portofino & Liguria, Italy - 138 records
- Sardinia, Italy - 178 records
- Ustica, Italy - 93 records
- Gozo, Malta - 15 records
- Balearic Islands, Spain - 65 records
- Cabo de Palos, Spain - 39 records
- Canary Islands, Spain - 11 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 6 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 4 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 1 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 2 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 1 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 2 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 15 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records