The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish.
Cauliflour Jellyfish, Cephea cephea at Marsa Shouna, Red Sea, Egypt SCUBA
The developmental stages of scyphozoan jellyfish's life cycle: 1–3 Larva searches for site 4–8 Polyp grows 9–11 Polyp strobilates 12–14 Medusa grows
Fossilized stranded scyphozoans on a Cambrian tidal flat at Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin.
Medusozoa is a clade in the phylum Cnidaria, and is often considered a subphylum. It includes the classes Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Staurozoa and Cubozoa. Medusozoans are distinguished by having a medusa s
Scyphozoa
…Scyphozoa Temporal range: (Possible Ediacaran Record) Cephea cephea Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Subphylum: Medusozoa Class: Scyphozoa Götte, 1887 Subgroups See text. The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish…
Polypodium hydriforme, parasites of obscure affinity
Pelagia noctiluca, a scyphozoan