Melon comb jelly
Amazing fact
The melon comb jelly has no tentacles.
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
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The melon comb jelly has no tentacles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Melon comb jelly
- Scientific name
- Beroe cucumis
- Japanese name
- ウリクラゲ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Nuda
- Order
- Beroida
- Family
- Beroidae
- Genus
- Beroe
Although its name includes kurage (jellyfish), it is a comb jelly (ctenophore).
How the Melon comb jelly lives
It lives floating in the water column. It swims by beating rows of tiny hairs along its body, creating a shimmering effect. At night, the plates bearing the hairs glow.
National Museums NI / Queen’s University Marine LaboratoryMarine Biological Association of the United KingdomBasic data
- Diet
- Kabuto comb jellies and other animals
- Range
- Oceans worldwide
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
- ウリクラゲ
- Français
- Groseille-de-mer rosée
- Deutsch
- Melonenqualle
- Русский
- Берое
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 — ウリクラゲChecked: 2026-11-04
- Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom — Melon comb jelly (Beroe cucumis)Checked: 2026-11-07
- National Museums NI / Queen’s University Marine Laboratory — Beroe cucumis — Northern comb jelly, Melon comb jellyChecked: 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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