Species Detail - Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Lagoon Surveys".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map

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Aurelia aurita
Moon jellyfish
NBNSYS0000174046 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
auaur
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Coelenterate (=cnidarian)
Species
5
5
4
22/08/1996
31/10/2017
26 January (recorded in 2024)
24 November (recorded in 1993)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/16039>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)