common jellyfish, moon jelly (Aurelia aurita) Aurelia flavidula
Subject: Jellyfishes, Aurelia
Tag: Invertebrates
Date 1905
Author Charles Wesley Hargitt (1852–1927)
Source/Photographer
English: Charles W. Hargitt (1905) Medusae of the Woods Hole Region, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol.24, 1904, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_41721_Aurelia_flavidula.jpeg
The common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly, or saucer jelly (Aurelia aurita) is a widely studied species of the genus Aurelia. The moon jellyfish is translucent and can be recognized by its four horseshoe-shaped gonads, easily seen through the top of the bell. Aurelia aurita is found along the eastern Atlantic coast of Northern Europe and the western Atlantic coast of North America.