Mauve Stinger (Pelagia noctilca)

The Mauve Stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) is a species of jellyfish found in the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and other temperate and tropical waters around the world. It is named for its distinctive mauve or purple coloration and its stinging tentacles, which can reach up to several meters in length.

The Mauve Stinger is a carnivorous predator that feeds on small fish, plankton, and other aquatic organisms. It has numerous tentacles that are lined with thousands of tiny stinging cells called nematocysts, which it uses to capture and paralyze its prey.

Interestingly mauve stingers do not have the polyp generation that the ordinal jellyfish do, and ephyrae are directly transformed from planula larvae. Also it is known that they glow when they are stimulated.