common jellyfish, moon jelly (Aurelia aurita) Jelly Fish
Aurelia flavidula, Peron and Le Sueur
Subject: Jellyfishes, Aurelia
Tag: Invertebrates
Date 1884
Author George Brown Goode (1851–1896)
Source/Photographer
English: George Brown Goode (1884) Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States: Section I, Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, Plates, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_51232_Jelly_Fish.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.