We're not suggesting that you can fry an egg on the pebbles on the beach, but rather referring to a type of jellyfish that looks just like one.

The Spanish call this kind of jellyfish, un huevo frito, and no prizes for guessing why, but its scientific name is a Cotylorhiza tuberculata, which is Latin for “a sunny-side up” – just kidding! The common names for it are the Mediterranean jellyfish, Mediterranean jelly or fried-egg jellyfish.

Anyway, a couple have popped up floating off a Motril beach, looking like Marty Feldman doing the back stroke and the Policía Local have issued a warning although they are relatively harmless.

“It’s not a dangerous species [but you wouldn’t want one down your swimming trunks] and it has very little sting in its tentacles,” explained the police Twitter account, adding that if you do get stung by one, it’s not that painful and the pain soon wears off… just as soon as the affected member turns fluorescent orange and drops off – just kidding!

If you do get stung by one, the recommended advice is draw all your money out the joint bank account, file for a divorce, grow a beard and head for South America – that’s advice for our female readers. If you’re a male reader, rub one on your chest, do a Tarzan yodel, go home and insist that you wife waits hand and foot on your for a week – in other words, normal man-flu procedure.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)