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Arctic comb jelly

Mertensia ovum

5,940Records since 2000
AugustPeak month

When it is recorded

Jan429
Feb462
Mar473
Apr528
May528
Jun572
Jul561
Aug583
Sep572
Oct473
Nov396
Dec363

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

About this species

Records since 2000
5,940
Peak month
August
Scientific name
Mertensia ovum
Group
Other invertebrates
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Ctenophora
Class
Tentaculata
Order
Cydippida
Family
Mertensiidae
Genus
Mertensia
Name with authority
Mertensia ovum (Fabricius, 1780)
Described
1780
Contributing datasets
1

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q641104 · GBIF 5233166