Spotted jelly
The spotted jelly is a jellyfish with spots on the top of its bell, the rounded body. It lives in the warm Indo-Pacific oceans, and in some saltwater lakes in Palau and Indonesia. Its lake populations are famous because they have lost most of their sting.1

Indlela yokusiqaphela
- Distinctive spots on the top of the bell1
- Colour ranges from greenish blue to olive green, from the algae living in its tissues1
- Eight rhopalia (sensory organs) along the edge of the bell1
- Eight frilled oral arms, each ending in a club-like appendage1
- Numerous small mouths along the bottom of the oral arms, unlike many other jellies1
Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba
Amawaka eeseli ezincinci ezihlabayo ziyadubula xa kukho into ezichukumisayo.
Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?
The venom is protein-based and is delivered by stinging cells called nematocytes (cnidocytes) on the upper surfaces of the oral arms. In jellyfish living in marine lakes, conditions in the lake are thought to break down this venom, so those populations do not sting humans.1
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: KuthambileNjengokuhlatywa yinyosi okanye ngaphantsi. Phantse asinangozi ebantwini.Jellyfish in the open ocean have stinging cells on their oral arms. Populations in marine lakes, such as Jellyfish Lake in Palau, do not sting humans.1
Ukuba siyahlaba
- Phuma emanzini kwaye ususe naziphi na ii-tentacle (ngeiglavu okanye ngelaphu).
- Kwiijelifishi zebhokisi (box jellyfish) zasetropiki: thela iviniga kwiindawo ezihlatyiweyo ubuncinane imizuzwana engama-30, biza uncedo kwaye ulungele ukwenza i-CPR. Kwii-bluebottle nakwezinye ezininzi: hlambulula ngamanzi olwandle, emva koko usebenzise amanzi ashushu ngenxa yeentlungu.
Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala
Hlala ukhuselekile
- Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
- Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Ukuba siyakuhlaba: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.
Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile
Phi emhlabeni?
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-9 zilandelelanaU-Spotted jelly mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?
Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.
Sikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyaniso
Lake populations of spotted jellies have lost most of their ability to sting, probably after being cut off in marine lakes long ago.1
Each day, spotted jellies rise to the surface and follow the sun from east to west, so their algae can photosynthesise.1
Lake jellyfish are over three times wider than ocean ones, yet their tentacles are about the same length.1
Unlike many jellies, spotted jellies have several small mouths along their oral arms.1
A sea anemone called Entacmaea medusivora preys on spotted jellies, catching them in its tentacles.1
At night they stay lower in the water column.1
Umqhekezi weentsomi
Intsomi: All spotted jellies sting people.
Inyaniso: Ocean populations have stinging cells, but the jellyfish in marine lakes such as Jellyfish Lake in Palau do not sting humans.1
Kwiingcali zetyhefu
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Mastigias papua
- Iqela
- Iijelifishi nezinye izilwanyana zaselwandle ezihlabayo
- Usapho
- Mastigiidae2
- Ucwangco
- Rhizostomeae
- Amazwekazi
- uLwandlekazi lwePasifiki, uLwandlekazi lwaseIndiya, uLwandle lweCoral, uLwandle lwePhilippines, uLwandle lweTimor ne-Arafura, Iilwandlekazi
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 1 / 5: Kuthambile3
Apho iinyaniso zivela khona
- Spotted jelly (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Mastigias papua (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
- Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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Ii-tentacle ezihlabayo
