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title: "Mauve Stinger"
description: "Pelagia noctiluca — Outros animais. Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/mauve-stinger
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mauve Stinger

> Pelagia noctiluca — Outros animais. Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia.

- Scientific name: *Pelagia noctiluca*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 6310
- Wikidata: [Q1354572](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354572)
- iNaturalist taxon: [256089](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/256089)

## Names

- en: Mauve Stinger
- de: Leuchtqualle
- es: Medusa boca de bandera
- fr: Pélagie
- nl: Parelkwal
- pl: Meduza świecąca

## Countries with the most observations

ES (1420), GR (1145), FR (953), IT (840), US (182), CA (135), PT (129), MT (111), GB (93), HR (62), IE (60), BM (28)

## Summary

Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia. It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, but other common names are purple-striped jelly (causing potential confusion with Chrysaora colorata), purple stinger, purple people eater, purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish and night-light jellyfish. In Greek, pelagia means "(she) of the sea", from pelagos "sea, open sea"; in Latin noctiluca is the combining form of nox, "night", and lux, "light"; thus, Pelagia noctiluca can be described as a marine organism with the ability to glow in…

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

## Photo

![Mauve Stinger](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mauve-stinger/medium.jpg)

Photo: Patrick Le Mao · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248722476

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mauve-stinger?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).