How big does the Papuan Jellyfish get?

The Papuan Jellyfish grows to about 8 cm.

Papuan Jellyfish

Mastigias papua

Group: Jellyfish
Max size: 8 cm

This jellyfish farms its own food, holding symbiotic algae in its tissues and basking in sunlit shallows by day so they can photosynthesise. As the sun drops it sinks deeper, and it rounds out its diet by gathering plankton and small invertebrates with its frilled oral arms.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Scyphozoa › Rhizostomeae › Mastigiidae › Mastigias

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 220485.

FAQ

How big does the Papuan Jellyfish get?: The Papuan Jellyfish grows to about 8 cm.