← Back

golden medusa

Mastigias papua

Classification

The spotted jelly (Mastigias papua), lagoon jelly, golden medusa, or Papuan jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish from the Indo-Pacific oceans. Like corals, sea anemones, and other sea jellies, it belongs to the phylum Cnidaria, which possess stinging cells called cnidocytes. Mastigias papua is one of the numerous marine animals living in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, photosynthetic algae within the animal's tissues.

Distribution

(c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Thibaud Aronson · CC-BY-SA
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 3Portugal · 1