Compass jellyfish
The compass jellyfish is a common jellyfish that lives in cool coastal seas of the northeast Atlantic, including the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Its bell has a pattern that looks like the face of a compass, which gives it its name. Its tentacles carry stinging cells, so it is best left alone.1

Maziviro ayo
- Adults have a bell 15 to 25 cm across, usually yellowish white with some brown.1
- The bell has 16 brown, elongated V-shaped markings around a central brown spot.1
- It has 24 tentacles arranged in eight groups of three.1
- It has four oral arms that are noticeably longer than the tentacles and look folded and frilly.1
- Juveniles lack the compass pattern. They look white and polka-dotted, with a reddish fringe on the bell edge.1
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: Records of this species from the southeastern Atlantic, including South Africa, were caused by confusion with close relatives: C. africana, C. fulgida and an undescribed species tentatively called "C. agulhensis".1
Simba reuturu
Zviuru zvemasero madiki anobaya zvinopfura kana chimwe chinhu chazvibata.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
Each tentacle has stinging cells used to capture prey and to defend against predators. Jellyfish stings are painful and can be deadly to humans.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.Jellyfish stings are painful and sometimes deadly to humans.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
Stinging cells on its tentacles are used to defend it from predators.1
Kana ikabaya
- Buda mumvura ubvise matentacle ose (nemagirovhosi kana nejira).
- Kune jellyfish yebhokisi yekunzvimbo dzinopisa: dira vhiniga pakabayiwa kwemasekondi 30 zvishoma, shevedza rubatsiro ugare wakagadzirira kuita CPR. Kune bluebottle nedzimwe zhinji: suka nemvura yegungwa, wozoshandisa mvura inopisa kuderedza marwadzo.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Kupi pasi rose?
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
yakareba sezvidhinha zvematoyi 8 zvakateedzanaCompass jellyfish yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
Males release sperm from their mouths into the water, and females can fertilise sperm from several males.1
Adults often carry a parasite called Hyperia medusarum, which settles inside the body, especially the gonads.1
Compass jellyfish have very few predators. Leatherback sea turtles and ocean sunfish are known to eat them.1
Warmer winters allow longer release periods for young, and the species is predicted to move further north as the seas warm.1
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: Compass jellyfish live in the southeastern Atlantic, including South Africa.
Chokwadi: Earlier records from there were due to confusion with close relatives. The species lives in the northeast Atlantic.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Chrysaora hysoscella
- Boka
- Majellyfish nezvimwe zvinobaya zvegungwa
- Mhuri
- Pelagiidae2
- Odha
- Semaeostomeae
- Makondinendi
- Gungwa reAtlantic, Gungwa reMediterranean, Gungwa reKuchamhembe, Makungwa makuru
- Vacheche
- Females release planular larvae, which settle on the seabed and grow into polyps. The polyps then release young medusae.1
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 2 / 5: Inorwadza3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Chrysaora hysoscella (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Chrysaora hysoscella (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
Chokwadi chimwe nechimwe pane peji rino chine nhamba inoratidza kwachakabva. Kana takakanganisa, ruregerero, tiri vanoda mhuka, kwete magazini yesainzi. Tiudze pa[email protected] tichazvigadzirisa.
Matentacle anobaya

