Description

Also known as Common Jelly, Common Jellyfish, Greater Moon Jellyfish, Medusa, Moon Jelly, Moon Jellyfish, Saucer Jelly, Saucer Jellyfish, Sea Jelly, White Jellyfish.

Found swarming in large numbers, swimming both directionally and vertically, in bays and open oceans.
They feed on invertebrates, other jellyfish, and zooplankton.
Diameter - 45cm
Depth - 0-1200m
Widespread - Pacific Ocean

Jellyfish are 95% water.
They have no heart, brain, blood, or gills. The body of the Jellyfish is called a bell. They do have a mouth, tentacles and arms around their mouth. They use their arms around their mouth to help sense and find food that ends up inside their mouth.

In the winter they disintegrate, the offspring surviving as larvae attached to the bottom. By asexual reproduction they form stacks of platters, and these platters are released in the spring to start their pelagic life.
Their only predators are Bannerfish and Arrow Crabs. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_labiata