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title: "Egg-yolk Jelly"
description: "Phacellophora camtschatica — Andere dieren. Phacellophora, commonly known as the fried egg jellyfish or egg-yolk jellyfish, is a very large jellyfish in the monotypic family Phacellophoridae containing a single species Phacellophora camtschatica."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/egg-yolk-jelly
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Egg-yolk Jelly

> Phacellophora camtschatica — Andere dieren. Phacellophora, commonly known as the fried egg jellyfish or egg-yolk jellyfish, is a very large jellyfish in the monotypic family Phacellophoridae containing a single species Phacellophora camtschatica.

- Scientific name: *Phacellophora camtschatica*
- Category: `other` (Andere dieren)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 6883
- Wikidata: [Q2352335](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2352335)
- iNaturalist taxon: [52966](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52966)

## Names

- en: Egg-yolk Jelly
- es: Medusa yema de huevo

## Countries with the most observations

US (4216), CA (2188), ES (15), MX (6)

## Summary

Phacellophora, commonly known as the fried egg jellyfish or egg-yolk jellyfish, is a very large jellyfish in the monotypic family Phacellophoridae containing a single species Phacellophora camtschatica. This genus can be easily identified by the yellow coloration in the center of its body which closely resembles an egg yolk, hence its common name. Some individuals can have a bell close to 60 cm (2 ft) in diameter, and most individuals have 16 clusters of up to a few dozen tentacles, each up to 6 m (20 ft) long. A smaller jellyfish, Cotylorhiza tuberculata, typically found in warmer water, particularly in the Mediterranean…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacellophora

## Photo

![Egg-yolk Jelly](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/egg-yolk-jelly/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jeffrey Lee (he/him/his) · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6822113

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/egg-yolk-jelly?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).