Jelly blubber
Amazing fact
The jelly blubber passes food to mouths spread along the arms beneath its bell.
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The jelly blubber passes food to mouths spread along the arms beneath its bell.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Jelly blubber
- Scientific name
- Catostylus mosaicus
- Japanese name
- カラージェリー
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Scyphozoa
- Order
- Rhizostomeae
- Family
- Catostylidae
- Genus
- Catostylus
How the Jelly blubber lives
It is commonly seen from summer into autumn. It uses stinging cells on its arms to catch larvae and small crustaceans. It moves forward through the water by repeatedly pulsing its bell. It often gathers in large groups in harbors and estuaries.
Australian MuseumBasic data
- Range
- Around Southeast Asia
Where the Jelly blubber has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- カラージェリー
- 简体中文
- 端棍水母
- 繁體中文
- 端棍水母
- Español
- Medusa mosaico
- Deutsch
- Kreuzqualle
- Português (Brasil)
- Água-viva-mosaico
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — カラージェリーChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Jelly BlubberChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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