Crystal jelly
Amazing fact
The crystal jelly has tentacles packed closely together around the edge of its bell.
市立しものせき水族館 海響館
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The crystal jelly has tentacles packed closely together around the edge of its bell.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Crystal jelly
- Scientific name
- Aequorea coerulescens
- Japanese name
- オワンクラゲ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hydrozoa
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Family
- Aequoreidae
- Genus
- Aequorea
How the Crystal jelly lives
Along the Shonai coast, it often appears from spring to early summer. It opens the mouth at the center of its bell wide to eat small jellyfish and mysid shrimps.
鶴岡市立加茂水族館Basic data
- Range
- Hokkaido to Kyushu
Where the Crystal jelly 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
- オワンクラゲ
- 简体中文
- 青色多管水母
- 繁體中文
- 青色多管水母
- 한국어
- 평면해파리
- Português (Brasil)
- Água-viva-cristal-brilhante
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 — オワンクラゲChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鶴岡市立加茂水族館 — オワンクラゲChecked: 2026-11-07
- 市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — 同じクラゲ？Checked: 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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