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Beroe

Beroe cucumis Fabricius, 1780

Status not recordedother invertebrates

The beroe (Beroe cucumis) is a species in the family Beroidae, order Beroida.

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Quick facts about the beroe

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the beroe live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the beroe as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Türkiye

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the beroe endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the beroe classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumCtenophora
  3. classNuda
  4. orderBeroida
  5. familyBeroidae
  6. genusBeroe
  7. SpeciesBeroe cucumis Fabricius, 1780

Synonyms Beroe fulgens, Beroe roseola, Idya borealis, Idya roseola, Idyia roseola, Medea arctica

Other names and names in other languages (16)
  • Melon comb jellyEnglish
  • Melon jellyfishEnglish
  • Sea gooseberryEnglish
  • melongopleDanish
  • GurkenqualleGerman
  • béroéFrench
  • ウリクラゲJapanese
  • agurkkammanetNorwegian Bokmål
  • meloenkwalDutch
  • agurkkammanetNorwegian Nynorsk
  • Гребневик БероеRussian
  • klimparSwedish
  • Stor melongopleDanish
  • MelonenqualleGerman
  • MützenqualleGerman
  • MeloenkwalletjeDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the beroe

Other species in the same genus Beroe.

Sea mitre

Beroe mitrata

BeroidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the beroe an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the beroe as introduced in 1 country: Türkiye, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the beroe?

The beroe (Beroe cucumis) belongs to the family Beroidae in the order Beroida.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Beroe (Beroe cucumis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/beroe

MLA

“Beroe (Beroe cucumis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/beroe.

BibTeX
@misc{beroe_2026,
  title = {Beroe (Beroe cucumis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/beroe},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}