Species Detail - Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Sponges of Rathlin Island".

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
11
3
1
06/06/2005
28/05/2007
26 January (recorded in 2024)
24 November (recorded in 1993)
Ulster Museum, Sponges of Rathlin Island, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), accessed 20 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/48/Species/16039

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)