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2. Turritopsis dohrnii - Wikipedia

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   Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the immortal jellyfish, is a species of small, biologically immortal jellyfish [2][3] found worldwide in temperate to tropic waters. It is one of the few known cases of animals capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary individual.

3. Jellyfish - Wikipedia

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   Jellyfish. Spotted jellies swimming in a Tokyo aquarium. Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa -phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles, although a few are ...

4. Craspedacusta sowerbii - Wikipedia

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   A specimen in a farming pond (Upstate New York). Craspedacusta sowerbii or peach blossom jellyfish[1] is a species of freshwater hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa cnidarian. Hydromedusan jellyfish differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because they have a muscular, shelf-like structure called a velum on the ventral surface, attached to the bell margin.

5. Aurelia aurita - Wikipedia

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   Aurelia aurita (also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly or saucer jelly) is a species of the family Ulmaridae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] All species in the genus are very similar, and it is difficult to identify Aurelia medusae without genetic sampling; [ 3 ] most of what follows applies equally to all species of the genus.

6. Cassiopea - Wikipedia

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   Cassiopea (upside-down jellyfish) is a genus of true jellyfish and members of the family Cassiopeidae. [3] They are found in warmer coastal regions around the world, including shallow mangrove swamps, mudflats, canals, and turtle grass flats in Florida, the Caribbean and Micronesia. The medusa usually lives upside-down on the sea floor in ...

7. Chrysaora hysoscella - Wikipedia

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   Chrysaora hysoscella. Chrysaora hysoscella, the compass jellyfish, [1] is a common species of jellyfish that inhabits coastal waters in temperate regions of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, including the North Sea and Mediterranean Sea. [2] In the past it was also recorded in the southeastern Atlantic, including South Africa, but this was ...