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Pelagia noctiluca

Pelagia noctiluca

Acàlef luminescent(+40)·(Forsskål, 1775)

GBIF:299614981

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Marine

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(21)

Saharan Upwelling
Azores Canaries Madeira
South European Atlantic Shelf
Levantine Sea
Western Mediterranean
Alboran Sea
Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Ionian Sea
Celtic Seas
North Sea
Oostende
Syrian part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
introduced
Colombian part of the Caribbean Sea
Belgian Coast
Colombian part of the North Pacific Ocean
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone
European waters (ERMS scope)
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone
Wimereux

DATA

Occurrence Datasets

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 20 languages.

catAcàlef luminescentcatspaAguavivaspadeuFeuerqualledeudeuLeuchtqualledeufinLoistomeduusafin+36 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 20 languages.

catAcàlef luminescent
cat
spaAguaviva
spa
deuFeuerqualle
deu
deuLeuchtqualle
deu
finLoistomeduusa
fin
engLuminous Jellyfish
eng
spaMedusa boca de bandera
spa
hrvMorska mjesečina
hrv
engPurple People Eater
eng
engPurple Stinger
eng
fraPélagie
fra
spaacalefo luminiscente
spa
catacàlef luminiscent
cat
spaclavel
spa
nldlichtende kwal
nld
swelysmanet
swe
marmoca lluminiscente
engmauve stinger
eng
spamedusa luminescente
spa
catmedusa luminiscent
cat
itamedusa luminosa
ita
polmeduza świecąca
pol
slvmesečinka
slv
framéduse pélagique
fra
engnight-light jellyfish
eng
nldparelkwal
nld
polpelagia świecąca
pol
engphosphorescent jellyfish
eng
engpink jellyfish
eng
frapiqueur-mauve
fra
engpurple jellyfish
eng
engpurplestripped jelly
eng
cestalířovka svítivá
ces
hunvilágító medúza
hun
porÁgua-viva-luminosa
por
ellΜωβ μέδουσα
ell
ellΜωβ τσούχτρα
ell
rusПелагия ночесветка
rus
hebשייטת ארגמנית
heb
jpnオキクラゲ
jpn
kor야광원양해파리
kor

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299614981
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2264423
Taxon ID
75XQ6
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026