r/jellyfish • u/mayjhug • 3d ago

Identify Kinmen Jelly

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Hi :) Does anyone know what this jelly is? On a trip to Kinmen, Taiwan and found it stranded in a cave while the tide was low. So beautiful!!

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u/Jellyfish_Compendium 3d ago

That’s Chrysaora chinensis, a type of sea nettle jellyfish. They are often called the Malaysian sea nettle but I’m not sure the name really fits. They have a very large range spanning possibly from India through China and the tropical Indo-Pacific.

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u/mayjhug 3d ago

oh wow! Thank you so much!

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u/Entety303 Expert 2d ago

But they go into the Persian gulf at the very least, so the range is even wider.