Purple-striped jelly
The purple-striped jelly is a jellyfish with a bell marked by purple stripes. It lives off the coast of California, and scientists study it closely because so little is known about how it feeds. Its sting is extremely painful to people, though stings are rare.1

Co renconuscher el
- The bell can be up to 70 cm across and usually has a radial pattern of purple stripes.1
- Juveniles are pinkish, with long, dark maroon tentacles.1
- Adults have eight long, dark marginal arms and four frilly oral arms.1
- As it ages, the tentacles thicken and look pale, and the oral arms become harder to see.1
Forza dal tissi
Millis da pitschnas cellas urticantas sajettan, cura ch'insatge las tutga.
Tge fa ses tissi?
Its stings release stingers that paralyse prey. Its sting is extremely painful to humans.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.The sting is extremely painful to humans, but stings are rare.1
Sch'el piztga
- Va or da l'aua e prenda davent las tentaclas (cun manetschas u cun in tschop).
- Tar medusas cubicas tropicalas: versa aschieu sin las piztgadas durant almain 30 secundas, clama agid e sajas pront da far ina reanimaziun. Tar galeras portugaisas e las bleras autras: lava cun aua da mar, lura cun aua chauda cunter las dolurs.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
uschè lung sco 4 bananas ina suenter l'autra
pudess nudar la lunghezza d'in grond bassin (50 m) en 140 secundasQuant grond è Purple-striped jelly cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Young Cancer crabs make their home in the jellyfish and eat the parasitic amphipods that feed on it and damage it.1
Leatherback turtles are the main predator of this jellyfish, which they favour because its four oral arms are rich in carbon and nitrogen.1
A specimen about 15 feet (4.5 m) long has been reported.1
It is more active in lively currents, which helps it move and catch prey.1
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Chrysaora colorata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Chrysaora colorata (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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