Very stinging jellyfish wash up on the Catalan coast

A new species of jellyfish - the

- was reported a few days ago in Collioure and Banyuls-sur-Mer, on the Vermeille coast in the Pyrénées-Orientales.

Scientists at the Banyuls biodiversarium recommend that bathers "be extremely vigilant because they are very stinging", reports

.

These jellyfish, easily recognizable by “their brown stripes on the umbrella”, wash up on the beaches of the Mediterranean.

For the biodiversarium, it is impossible to predict how long this phenomenon will last.

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