Species Detail - Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Species image
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Aurelia aurita
Moon jellyfish
NBNSYS0000174046
RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
auaur
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Coelenterate (=cnidarian)
Species
225
72
35
16/05/2004
17/10/2021
26 January (recorded in 2024)
24 November (recorded in 1993)
Seasearch, SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/158/Species/16039>