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Cyanea lamarckii Blue Lion's Mane Jellyfish, Cornflower Jellyfish, Blue Jellyfish, Bluefire Jellyfish

Cyanea lamarckii is commonly referred to as Blue Lion's Mane Jellyfish, Cornflower Jellyfish, Blue Jellyfish, Bluefire Jellyfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.


Profilbild Urheber Thomas Menut, Frankreich

Cyanea lamarckii,Finistère, Bretagne, FR 2025


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lexID:
6336 
AphiaID:
135302 
Scientific:
Cyanea lamarckii 
German:
Blaue Nesselqualle, Blaue Haarqualle, Blaue Feuerqualle 
English:
Blue Lion's Mane Jellyfish, Cornflower Jellyfish, Blue Jellyfish, Bluefire Jellyfish 
Category:
Umbrella jellyfish 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Semaeostomeae (Order) > Cyaneidae (Family) > Cyanea (Genus) > lamarckii (Species) 
Initial determination:
Péron & Lesueur, 1810 
Occurrence:
the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Bay of Biscay, Belgium, Danmark, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden, the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, the Isle of Man 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
22 - 150 Meter 
Habitats:
Seawater, Sea water, Water column 
Size:
2.36" - 11.81" (6cm - 30cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 73.4 °F (°C - 23°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Cnidaria, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Has a poison harmful to health 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Cyanea aculeatiflora
  • Cyanea acuminata
  • Cyanea angustifolia
  • Cyanea annaskala
  • Cyanea arborea
  • Cyanea asarifolia
  • Cyanea asplenifolia
  • Cyanea buitendijki
  • Cyanea calycina
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2026-01-28 12:43:00 

Toxicity

This is a general hint!
Cyanea lamarckii has a harmful toxin.
As a rule, animals with a harmful poison do not pose mortal danger in normal Aquarieaner everyday life. Read the following husbandry information and comments from aquarists who already keep Cyanea lamarckii in their aquarium to get a better picture about the possible danger. However, please be careful when using Cyanea lamarckii. Every human reacts differently to poisons.
If you suspect that you have come into contact with the poison, please contact your doctor or the poison emergency call.
The phone number of the poison emergency call can be found here:
[overview_and_url_DE]
Overview Europe: European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

Info

Cyanea lamarckiii Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Synonymised names
Cyanea Lamarck Péron & Lesueur, 1810 · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet (incorrect spelling of species epithet)

External links

  1. Marine Species Identification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Cyanea lamarckii, Nordsee 2015,Copyright Muelly
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Cyanea lamarckii (c) Muelly, Bild aus der Nordsee
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Copyright Jim Greenfield
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© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland, Bild aus Schottland
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© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland, Bild aus den Niederlanden
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