Animal Unique | White Spotted Jellyfish | White spotted jellyfish is a native of Australia and is also known as the Australian spotted jellyfish. White-spotted jellyfish is one of the most beautiful jellyfish in the world. Its has unique appearance with white spotted on its bell. White-spotted jellyfish is easily recognized by the large, semi-transparent, rounded bell covered in regularly spaced, white dots. The trailing tentacles also end in whitened spots. It grows to the size of about 45-50 centimeters in diameter, and is occasionally known to grow to a maximum length of just a little over 60 centimeters in size.
They look extremely beautiful with the design of white spots over their translucent gelatinous body and their frilly oral arms add another aspect of charm to their appearance. They live in oceans and coastal waters. You can found them throughout Australia. White-spotted jellyfish has been found in large numbers in Gulf of Mexico
They look extremely beautiful with the design of white spots over their translucent gelatinous body and their frilly oral arms add another aspect of charm to their appearance. They live in oceans and coastal waters. You can found them throughout Australia. White-spotted jellyfish has been found in large numbers in Gulf of Mexico
White spotted jellyfish have two stage life cycle which consists of a medusa stage (adult) and a polyp stage (juvenile). In the medusa stage, male jellyfish release sperm into the water column and the female jellyfish gathers the sperm into her mouth where she holds the eggs. Once fertilization occurs and larvae are formed they leave their mother and settle to the ocean floor. Once on the bottom a polyp form occurs and this form reproduces asexually by “cloning” or dividing itself into other polyps. Jellyfish can live for up to five years in the polyp stage and up to two years in the medusa stage.
White spotted jellyfish primarily feed zooplankton. However, they also consume plankton and the eggs and larvae of important fish species. This fact cause problem and need to be concerned. Each of them can filter as much as 13,200 gallons of sea water per day. While doing that, it ingests the plankton that native species need. Additionally, white spotted jellyfish are fairly harmless and their sting contains only mild venom which does not cause any serious effect or reaction in humans. Vinegar can cure the little burning sensation that may be caused by the sting. In most cases, just washing the location of the sting with salt water is sufficient measure to rid oneself of the minor effects of the white spotted jellyfish sting.
White-spotted Jellyfish is causing a problem overseas, particularly in the Caribbean region. It may have hitched a ride in ships' ballast tanks, travelling from Australia and the Pacific region to the Caribbean. Here, it found an ideal place to breed, free of their natural predators (various Pacific-region snails).
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