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Flame jellyfish
Rhopilema esculentum (Flame jellyfish · ビゼンクラゲ)
Not Evaluated (NE) on the IUCN Red List yet.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its bell width of 45 cm is about 1.5 times the long side of an A4 sheet of paper (29.7 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 It is a commercially harvested jellyfish (SeaLifeBase).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The flame jellyfish is a jellyfish living in warm estuaries and coastal waters and is harvested commercially.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its bell width reaches up to 45 cm.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It spends its entire life cycle in coastal sea waters. It drifts near rocky bottoms at the mouths of bays at depths of 10–20 m.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
It is listed on the National List of Species of Korea under the name Supppuri-haepari (Korean name).
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List: not evaluated (NE) — cross-checked with the Wikidata conservation-status entry
- • marinespecies.org — aphia.php
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000222107 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000222107
- • wikidata.org — Q140799
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Rhopilema esculentum at Monterey Bay Aquarium.jpg
- • sealifebase.se — Rhopilema-esculentum.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Darrin Schultz · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.