Nous n’avons pas pu vérifier de statut pour cette espèce dans nos sources (Liste rouge de l’UICN, lue via GBIF, consultée le 5 novembre 2026). Nous préférons ne rien afficher plutôt qu’une valeur incertaine.
Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia. It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, but other common names are purple-striped jelly, purple stinger, purple people eater, purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish and night-light jellyfish. In Greek, pelagia means "(she) of the sea", from pelagos "sea, open sea"; in Latin noctiluca is the combining form of nox, "night", and lux, "light"; thus, Pelagia noctiluca can be described as a marine organism with the ability to glow in the dark (bioluminescence). It is found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas, although it is suspected that records outside the North Atlantic region, which includes the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico, represent closely related but currently unrecognized species.
Résumé : Wikipédia (en anglais) — licence CC BY-SA.
- Nom scientifique
- Pelagia noctiluca (Forsskål, 1775)
- Règne
- Animalia
- Classe
- Scyphozoa
- Ordre
- Semaeostomeae
- Famille
- Pelagiidae
- Où
- présente en Méditerranée
Sources
- WoRMS — nom et classification (AphiaID 135305)
- Wikipédia — résumé et photo
- Liste rouge de l’UICN : statut non vérifié ici
Données consultées le 2026-11-05.
