{"id":22172,"date":"2024-04-05T05:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22172"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:25:10","slug":"purple-striped-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/purple-striped-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple-Striped Jellyfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Purple-striped jellyfish:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>\u00a0It usually appears a blue purple (mauve) colour with a globe shaped umbrella covered in orangey brown warts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong>\u00a0It is primarily pelagic or in the open ocean. However, this species can survive in benthic and temperate coastal habitats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:\u00a0<\/strong>It is found worldwide in\u00a0<strong>tropical and warm-temperature seas.<\/strong>\u00a0It is mainly found in the Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unique feature:<\/strong>\u00a0Unlike other jellyfish species, it has stingers not just on the tentacles, but on the bell too. These are\u00a0<strong>bioluminescent<\/strong>, having an ability to produce light in the dark.<\/li>\n<li>It is venomous and causes\u00a0<strong>varying degrees of illness<\/strong>\u00a0such as diarrhoea, extreme pain, vomiting and anaphylactic shock.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A jellyfish bloom<\/strong>\u00a0is when the\u00a0<strong>population<\/strong>\u00a0of the species<strong>\u00a0increases<\/strong>\u00a0dramatically within a short period of time, usually due to a higher reproduction rate.\n<ul>\n<li>According to marine biologists, jellyfish blooms are reported frequently as a\u00a0<strong>result of rising ocean temperatures,<\/strong>\u00a0one of the main causes of substantial population\u00a0growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is an algal bloom?<\/h3>\n<p>An algal bloom is the overgrowth of microscopic algae or algae-like bacteria in fresh, salt, or brackish waters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Visakhapatnam\/venomous-jellyfish-blooms-spotted-along-visakhapatnam-coast-in-andhra-pradesh\/article68023846.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Venomous jellyfish blooms spotted along Visakhapatnam coast in Andhra Pradesh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple-striped jellyfish usually appear a blue purple (mauve) colour with a globe shaped umbrella covered in orangey brown warts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}