Pleurobrachia pileus
| Pleurobrachia pileus | |
|---|---|
| Washed up on the beach | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora |
| Class: | Tentaculata |
| Order: | Cydippida |
| Family: | Cydippidae |
| Genus: | Pleurobrachia |
| Species: | P. pileus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurobrachia pileus (O. F. Müller, 1776) | |
Pleurobrachia pileus is a species of comb jelly, commonly known as a sea gooseberry. It is found in open water in the northern Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and was first described by the Danish zoologist Otto Friedrich Müller in 1776.