Purple-striped Jellyfish - Pelagia noctiluca

Being followed by a very tiny fish, almost as transparent as the jelly! Jellies are good hosts for several fish juvenile species. I guess the fishes have some ways to avoid being eaten by the jelly, eventually.

The Mauve Stinger

"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, purple stinger, purple people eater, purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish and night-light jellyfish. In Greek, "pelagia" means " of the sea", from "pelagos" "sea, open sea"; in Latin "noctiluca" is the combining form of "nox", "night"", and "lux", "light"; thus, "Pelagia.. more

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Similar species: Flag-mouth Jellies

Species identified by Patomarazul