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Mauve Stinger

Pelagia noctiluca

Classification

Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia. It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, but other common names are purple-striped jelly (causing potential confusion with Chrysaora colorata), purple stinger, purple people eater, purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish and night-light jellyfish. In Greek, pelagia means "(she) of the sea", from pelagos "sea, open sea"; in Latin noctiluca is the combining form of nox, "night", and lux, "light"; thus, Pelagia noctiluca can be described as a marine organism with…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 2,503France · 1,090Italy · 498United Kingdom · 77