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Catostylidae is a family of jellyfish, their common name is fat-armed jellies. [1] Members of this family are characterized by their thick, sausage-like oral arms. [2] Members of the family Catostylidae are small marine jellyfish with domed bells. The eight short oral arms are broad and three-sided.
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.
Bahia Emerald [2]; Carolina Emperor, [3] [4] 310 carats uncut, 64.8 carats cut; discovered in the United States in 2009, resides in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, US
The Deepstaria enigmatica has a wide, thin bell (up to 60 cm or 2 ft), [1] transparent in appearance, which undulates as the jellyfish moves. They are usually found in Antarctic and near-Antarctic seas, but have been spotted in waters near the United Kingdom and Gulf of Mexico, at depths of 600–1,750 metres (1,970–5,740 ft).
Jet as a gemstone became fashionable during the reign of Queen Victoria. [46] It originally became fashionable in the 1850s after the queen wore a necklace of it as part of mourning dress for Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. [46] Later the Queen wore Whitby jet as part of her mourning dress while mourning the death of Prince Albert.
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] Scyphozoans have existed from the earliest Cambrian to the ...
Rhizostomeae (literally "root mouths") is an order of jellyfish.Species of this order have neither tentacles nor other structures at the bell's edges. Instead, they have eight highly branched oral arms, along which there are suctorial minimouth orifices.
Aequorea forskalea Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Hydrozoa Order: Leptothecata Family: Aequoreidae Genus: Aequorea Species: A. forskalea Binomial name Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Synonyms List Aequorea aequorea (Forsskål, 1775) Medusa aequorea Forsskål, 1775 Aequorea stauroglypha Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Staurobrachium ...