Moon Jelly ***

Fish Species

Moon Jelly

Moon Jelly - Description

The Moon Jelly is also known as the Moon Jellyfish or Moon Jellies. It can be identified by four horseshoe shaped gonads visible through the top of its bell.

It moves by drifting through the ocean and feeds on plankton and molluscs that it traps with its tentacles and brings into its body for digestion. Did you know - A group of Jellies is known as a Smack!

Popular Name: Moon Jelly
Species: Aurelia aurita

Profile of the Moon Jelly

This Profile contains interesting facts and information about the Moon Jelly species.

Size: 25-40cm
Diet / Feeding: Plankton and Molluscs
Habitat: Oceans with temperatures ranging from 6 to 31 degrees
Range: Worldwide Oceans particularly the Eastern and Western Atlantic

Scientific Classification of the Moon Jelly

Definition: Scientific classification, or biological classification, is how biologists group and categorize species of organisms with shared physical characteristics. Scientific classification belongs to the science of taxonomy.

Species: Aurelia aurita
Popular Name: Moon Jellyfish - Moon Jelly - Moon Jellies
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Semaeostomeae
Family: Ulmaridae

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Facts about Fish Species - Moon Jelly

The colours, shapes and sizes of individual fishes varies enormously - you really need excellent quality pictures or photographs to assist in the identification process.

A combination of the number of fins and their characteristics, color, scale counts, general features, maximum length and distribution are used during a species identification process.

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