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Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night (Japanese: 夜のクラゲは泳げない, Hepburn: Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai), abbreviated as YoruKura (ヨルクラ), is an original anime television series produced by Doga Kobo for its 50th anniversary.
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 ...
Stygiomedusa swimming near the Melchior Islands as seen from Viking submersible "Ringo" in December 2023.. Sightings of giant phantom jellyfish in the Antarctic Ocean: Although Stygiomedusa is not native to the Antarctic Ocean, there have been sightings of the jellyfish in the Antarctic Ocean [8] with the help of submersibles.
Octopuses swim headfirst, with arms trailing behind Jellyfish pulsate their bell for a type of jet locomotion Scallops swim by clapping their two shells open and closed Main article: Jet propulsion Jet propulsion is a method of aquatic locomotion where animals fill a muscular cavity and squirt out water to propel them in the opposite direction ...
Cubozoa is a group commonly known as box jellyfish, that occur in tropical and warm temperate seas. They have cube-shaped, transparent medusae and are heavily-armed with venomous nematocysts. Cubozoans have planula larvae, which settle and develop into sessile polyps, which subsequently metamorphose into sexual medusae, [ 11 ] the oral end of ...
Every morning, jellyfish swim towards the surface of the water to reach the sunlight. Not only do they love sunlight, but they need it to survive. They feed off the algae that grows in the lake
Chrysaora fuscescens, the Pacific sea nettle or West Coast sea nettle, is a widespread planktonic scyphozoan cnidarian—or medusa, "jellyfish" or "jelly"—that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, in temperate to cooler waters off of British Columbia and the West Coast of the United States, ranging south to México.
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.