''Olindias phosphorica'', or cigar jellyfish, is a species of
hydrozoan
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; ) are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water. The colonies of the colonial species can be large, and in some cases the specialize ...
from the central and eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.
The Mediterranean sea is a predominantly warm body of water, thus ''O. phosphorica'' is a warm-water Jellyfish. Global warming has facilitated the proliferation of the species throughout the Mediterranean sea.
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References
Olindiidae
Animals described in 1841
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