Scyphozoa
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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.
Aurelia aurita
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Aurelia aurita is a species of true jellyfish in the family Ulmaridae and the type species of its genus, Aurelia. Before the 2020s, the species was considered cosmopolitan, but the taxon has since bee
Scyphozoa
…Each rhopalium is typically associated with a pair of sensory pits, a statocyst, and sometimes a pigment-cup ocellus. Scyphozoa include the moon jelly Aurelia aurita, in the order Semaeostomeae, and the enormous Nemopilema nomurai, in the order Rhizostomeae, found between Japan and China and which in some years…
Aurelia aurita Luc Viatour