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Rhizostoma pulmo

Synonyms: Medusa pulmo (homotypic); Rhizostoma aldrovandi; Rhizostoma cuvierii; Rhizostoma octopus (heterotypic); Rhizostoma spec (pro parte)

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhizostoma pulmo, commonly known as the barrel jellyfish, the dustbin-lid jellyfish or the frilly-mouthed jellyfish. , is a scyphomedusa in the family Rhizostomatidae. It is found in the northeast Atlantic, and in an Adriatic, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Sea of Azov. It is also known from the southern Atlantic off the western South African coast and into False Bay. It is a favourite food of the leatherback turtle.
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Protected Areas

Predators

Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0