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Scyphozoa (class)


Identification code: 300311093



Alternative term/s

  • scyphozoan
  • scyphozoans

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Class containing around 200 species of cup animals, including some jellyfish. Life histories commonly involve alternation of a very small polyp with a medusa that develops from an ephyra released by the polyp. They are divided by four longitudinal septa producing tetramerous radial symmetry; gonads are endodermal. They have marginal sensory structures (rhopalia) with statocysts and/or ocelli. They are most abundant in coastal waters, but oceanic species exist.

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