School of jellyfish - Banco de medusas

Cotylorhiza tuberculata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the Mediterranean jelly or fried egg jellyfish. It is commonly found in the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea and Adriatic Sea. Capable of growing as large as 35 cm in diameter, the Mediterranean jelly, unlike many others of its species, is capable of autonomous movement without relying on the current.

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Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

C. tuberculata is usually less than 17 cm wide. The smooth, elevated dome is surrounded by a gutter-like ring. The marginal lappets are elongated and subrectangular. Each mouth-arm bifurcates near its base and branches several times. In addition to some larger appendages there are many short, club-shaped ones that bear disk-like ends

Descripción
Umbrela aplanada con una protuberancia central abombada de color más oscuro, que el resto de la umbrela y más gruesa al tacto, su color es verdosos amarronado, debido a las algas simbiontes que lleva en su interior.
Tiene 8 brazos orales, 8 ropalias (órganos sensoriales) y 16 lóbulos marginales, de los brazos orales salen unas ramificaciones muy numerosas en forma de pequeños tentáculos capitados, algunos de ellos de un color violeta muy llamativo.

Hábitat
Pelágico, tanto en aguas someras como más profundas.

Distribución
Aunque se encuentra en todo el Mar Menor, parece ser que las poblaciones son más numerosas por la zona sur (Los Urrutias, Los Nietos, etc...)

Dimensiones
Esta medusa puede llegar a medir hasta 30 cm. de diámetro de la umbrela (sombrilla).

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[marumadriles]

Poisonous or not.. I rather stay out of the water when those things are around...

Cool video.

[bosbcn]

Thank you!! I am glad to hear someone liked it, as I thought I was risking my life :)

[Iris369]

o no what if you touched them?they're deadly

[bosbcn]

Actually these are not poisonous. At the time i filmed I did not know that, so I was very careful. I spent the rest of the summer playing with them. They are soft and slimy. I will try to post a video touching them soon.

The other jellyfish on my videos (aguamala) does sting, and it is in deed quite painful.

[Sharkeologist]

awesome. they're soooo beautiful. i saw a lot of them this summer

[bosbcn]

Later this summer I found out they do not sting. At the time of the filming, i was very careful, not to get close to them :D

[MaquiHabbo]

Buen video ♥

[sdrfgvrfgvsfravgdsvS]

this don't hurt

[Iris369]

cool!i'll wait for that

[robisvh]

Loved the video!!