Spotted jelly

For the Australian spotted jellyfish or white-spotted jellyfish, see Phyllorhiza punctata.

Spotted jelly
Specimens at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Rhizostomeae
Family: Mastigiidae
Genus: Mastigias
Species:
M. papua
Binomial name
Mastigias papua
Lesson, 1830
Synonyms[1]
  • Cephea papua Lesson, 1830
  • Mastigias papua var. Sibogae Maas, 1903
  • Mastigias physophora Kishinouye, 1895
  • Pseudorhiza thocambaui Agassiz & Mayer, 1899

The spotted jelly (Mastigias papua), lagoon jelly, golden medusa, or Papuan jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish from the Indo-Pacific oceans. Like corals, sea anemones, and other sea jellies, it belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Mastigias papua is one of the numerous marine animals living in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic alga.[2]

  1. ^ Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C. (2023). World List of Scyphozoa. Mastigias papua (Lesson, 1830). Accessed through WoRMS on 2023-05-29.
  2. ^ "Spotted jelly". Monterey Bay Aquarium. Retrieved 2018-02-25.