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  2. Scyphozoa - Wikipedia

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    The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, [2] referred to as the true jellyfish (or "true jellies"). The class name Scyphozoa comes from the Greek word skyphos ( σκύφος ), denoting a kind of drinking cup and alluding to the cup shape of the organism.

  3. ‘Large’ sea creature — with ‘unique’ tentacles — discovered ...

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    The new species of jellyfish is considered “relatively large,” its body reaching just over 1 inch in height and its tentacles measuring over 2 inches in length, the study said.

  4. Jellyfish - Wikipedia

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    The lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) is one of the largest species. The lion's mane jellyfish, Cyanea capillata, was long-cited as the largest jellyfish, and arguably the longest animal in the world, with fine, thread-like tentacles that may extend up to 36.5 m (119 ft 9 in) long (though most are nowhere near that large).

  5. Spotted jelly - Wikipedia

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    The spotted jelly (Mastigias papua), lagoon jelly, golden medusa, or Papuan jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish from the Indo-Pacific oceans. Like corals, sea anemones, and other sea jellies, it belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Mastigias papua is one of the numerous marine animals living in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic alga. [2]

  6. Staurozoa - Wikipedia

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    Staurozoa is a class of Medusozoa (or jellyfish).It has one extant order: Stauromedusae (stalked jellyfishes) with a total of 50 known species. A fossil group called Conulariida has been proposed as a second order, [3] although this is highly speculative.

  7. Aequorea victoria - Wikipedia

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    Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America.. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved in bioluminescence.

  8. Coronamedusae - Wikipedia

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    The thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata) is a tiny species, and one of the few from shallow tropical seas; It is a zooxanthellate species. [4] Coronatids have a characteristic constriction, the coronal groove, part way down the bell. Below this the bell is creased and lobed into four pedalia.

  9. Oldest known species of jellyfish discovered in the Canadian ...

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    A rock slab shows one large (right) and one small (left) bell-shaped jellyfish with tentacles. The smaller animal is rotated 180 degrees. - Jean-Bernard Caron/Royal Ontario Museum

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