Water Jellyfish

Aequorea victoria

• Group: Jellyfish
• Max size: 7 cm

This transparent jellyfish glows with its own blue green light when disturbed, a trait that made it famous in laboratories. It drifts through coastal water hunting fish eggs, larvae, zooplankton and even other jellyfish, growing a bell only about seven centimetres across.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hydrozoa › Leptothecata › Aequoreidae › Aequorea

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 283998.