Animals / Jellyfish

Barrel jellyfish

Rhizostoma pulmo · Rhizostomatidae

Rhizostoma pulmo, commonly known as the barrel jellyfish, the dustbin-lid jellyfish or the frilly-mouthed jellyfish, is a scyphomedusa in the family Rhizostomatidae. It is found in the northeast Atlantic, and in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Sea of Azov. It is also known from the southern Atlantic off the western South African coast and into False Bay.

Where the Barrel jellyfish lives

Recorded in Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Israel, France, United Kingdom and Germany (Europe and Asia).

Most records fall in Barcelona, Trieste, Zeeland, Zuid-Holland, Tarragona and Pas-de-Calais.

See the Barrel jellyfish’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Not evaluated (NE). Scientists haven’t checked yet how at risk it is, so this doesn’t mean it is safe or in danger. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 25,571 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.