Black sea nettle

phylum	Cnidaria	Chrysaora achlyos is a species of jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae. This species is known as the Black Sea Nettle, or Black Jellyfish. Chrysaora achlyos is a gigantic species: it can grow up to a bell diameter of 1 meter, with tentacles up to 5 or 6 m long. It is dark purple in color and it is found in the Pacific Ocean. Extraordinarily, this huge species was discovered very recently, in 1989; it earned its latin name in 1997. This jellyfish, like other jellyfishes, feeds on smaller jellyfishes and other zooplankton. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Jellyfish
class	Scyphozoa
order	Semaeostomeae
family	Pelagiidae
genus	Chrysaora
species	C. Achlyos

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