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Scyphozoa

Index Scyphozoa

The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish (or "true jellies"). [1]

84 relations: Albumares, Anfesta stankovskii, Aspidella, Bear Seamount, Black dogfish, Blackberry Hill, Borden Formation, Box jellyfish, Byronia, Cassiopea, Cephalopod size, Cephea, Chrysaora fuscescens, Cnidaria, Conulariida, Copper shark, Copula sivickisi, Coronamedusae, Cotylorhiza, Craspedacusta sowerbii, Crown jellyfish, Cyaneidae, Dendronotus rufus, Diagonal butterflyfish, Discomedusae, Discophora, Drymonema, Drymonema larsoni, Ediacaria, Essexella, Fauna of Estonia, Fauna of Ireland, Flower hat jelly, Hydrozoa, Hyperia galba, Jellyfish, Jellyfish Lake, Krunoslav Babić, Largest organisms, Linantha, Lion's mane jellyfish, List of animal classes, List of animal names, List of cnidarians of Ireland, List of Greek and Latin roots in English/S, List of MeSH codes (B01), List of prehistoric medusozoans, List of radiata animal orders, List of Star Wars species (A–E), Lychnorhizidae, ..., Marine larval ecology, Mastigiidae, Medusozoa, Michael Sars, Mnemiopsis, Nerve net, Netrostoma, Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Park, Oral arm, Pelagia noctiluca, Phyllorhiza punctata, Pitkin Formation, Planula, Polyp, Porpita prunella, Prowfish, Rabbitfish, Red Sea sailfin tang, Rhizostoma, Rhizostoma pulmo, Rhizostomae, Rhizostomatidae, Rhopalium, Rhopilema verrilli, Seafood, Siganus rivulatus, Skyphos, Stomolophus, Strobilation, Taxonomy of invertebrates (Brusca & Brusca, 2003), Taxonomy of the animals (Hutchins et al., 2003), Tetraplatia, Traité de Zoologie, 2016 in paleontology. Expand index (34 more) »

Albumares

Albumares brunsae is a tri-radially symmetrical fossil animal that lived in the late Ediacaran (Vendian) seafloor.

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Anfesta stankovskii

Anfesta stankovskii is a tri-radially symmetrical fossil animal that lived in the late Ediacaran (Vendian) seafloor.

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Aspidella

Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil of uncertain (possibly cnidarian?) affinity.

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Bear Seamount

The Bear Seamount is a guyot or flat-topped underwater volcano in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Black dogfish

The black dogfish (Centroscyllium fabricii) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae.

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Blackberry Hill

Blackberry Hill is a series of quarries and outcrops in Central Wisconsin that is notable for its large concentration of trace fossils in Cambrian rocks.

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Borden Formation

The Mississippian Borden Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia,Matchen, D.L., and Kammer, T.W., 1994, Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian Price and Borden Formations in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky: Southeastern Geology, v. 34, no.

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Box jellyfish

Box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their cube-shaped medusae.

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Byronia

Byronia is a genus of theca-bearing cnidarians with a close affinity to the coronatid scyphozoans.

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Cassiopea

Cassiopea (upside-down jellyfish) is a genus of true jellyfish and the only members of the family Cassiopeidae.

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Cephalopod size

Cephalopods vary enormously in size.

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Cephea

Cephea is a genus of true jellyfish in the family Cepheidae.

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Chrysaora fuscescens

The Pacific sea nettle (Chrysaora fuscescens), or West Coast sea nettle, is a common free-floating scyphozoan that lives in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico.

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Cnidaria

Cnidaria is a phylum containing over 10,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic (freshwater and marine) environments: they are predominantly marine species.

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Conulariida

Conulariida is a poorly understood fossil group that has possible affinity with the Cnidaria.

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Copper shark

The copper shark, bronze whaler, or narrowtooth shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus) is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae, and the only member of its genus found mostly at temperate latitudes.

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Copula sivickisi

Copula is a monotypic genus of box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Coronamedusae

Coronamedusae is a subclass of jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa.

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Cotylorhiza

Cotylorhiza is a genus of true jellyfish from the family Cepheidae.

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Craspedacusta sowerbii

Craspedacusta sowerbii is a freshwater jellyfish in the phylum Cnidaria.

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Crown jellyfish

Crown jellyfishes are the six families of true jellyfish that belong to the order Coronatae.

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Cyaneidae

The Cyaneidae are a family of true jellyfish.

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Dendronotus rufus

Dendronotus rufus is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.

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Diagonal butterflyfish

The diagonal butterflyfish (Chaetodon fasciatus), also known as the Red Sea raccoon butterflyfish, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae).

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Discomedusae

Discomedusae is a subclass of jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa.

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Discophora

Discophora is a scientific name for several groups of organisms.

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Drymonema

Drymonema is a genus of true jellyfish, placed in its own family, the Drymonematidae.

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Drymonema larsoni

Drymonema larsoni (also known as the "pink meanie") is a species of jellyfish belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

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Ediacaria

Ediacaria is a fossil genus dating to the Ediacaran Period of the Neoproterozoic Era.

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Essexella

Essexella is an extinct genus of scyphozoan jellyfish known from Late Carboniferous fossils containing the species Essexella asherae.

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Fauna of Estonia

Estonia is a small, heavily forested country situated on the Baltic Sea.

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Fauna of Ireland

The fauna of Ireland comprises all the animal species inhabiting the island of Ireland and its surrounding waters.

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Flower hat jelly

The flower hat jelly (Olindias formosus) is a species of hydrozoan in the family Olindiidae.

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Hydrozoa

Hydrozoa (hydrozoans, from ancient Greek ὕδρα, hydra, "sea serpent" and ζῷον, zoon, "animal") are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most living in salt water.

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Hyperia galba

Hyperia galba is a species of zooplankton, an amphipod in the family Hyperiidae.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish or sea jelly is the informal common name given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Jellyfish Lake

Jellyfish Lake (Ongeim'l Tketau, "Fifth Lake") is a marine lake located on Eil Malk island in Palau.

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Krunoslav Babić

Krunoslav Babić (12 April 1875 - 4 March 1953) was Croatian zoologist.

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Largest organisms

The largest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of an organism's size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size.

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Linantha

Linantha is a genus of crown jellyfish in the family Linuchidae.

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Lion's mane jellyfish

The lion's mane jellyfish, also known as the giant jellyfish or the hair jelly, is the largest known species of jellyfish.

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List of animal classes

The following is a list of the classes in each phylum of the kingdom Animalia.

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List of animal names

Many animals, particularly domesticated, have specific names for males, females, young, and groups.

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List of cnidarians of Ireland

There are 302 species of cnidarians (phylum Cnidaria) recorded in Ireland.

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/S

Category:Lists of words.

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List of MeSH codes (B01)

The following is a list of the "B01" codes of MeSH.

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List of prehistoric medusozoans

This list of prehistoric medusozoans is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the subphylum Medusozoa, excluding purely vernacular terms.

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List of radiata animal orders

List of radiata animal orders lists the various orders of animals, such as corals, sponges and jellyfish, formerly classified as Radiata.

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List of Star Wars species (A–E)

This is a list of Star Wars species, containing the names of fictional sentient species from the Star Wars franchise beginning with the letters A through E. Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas.

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Lychnorhizidae

Lychnorhizidae is a family of true jellyfish.

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Marine larval ecology

Marine larval ecology is the study of the factors influencing the dispersing larval stage which is exhibited by many marine invertebrates and fishes.

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Mastigiidae

Mastigiidae is a family of true jellyfish.

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Medusozoa

Medusozoa is a clade in the phylum Cnidaria, and is often considered a subphylum.

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Michael Sars

Michael Sars (30 August 1805 – 22 October 1869) was a Norwegian theologian and biologist.

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Mnemiopsis

Mnemiopsis leidyi, the warty comb jelly or sea walnut, is a species of tentaculate ctenophore (comb jelly), originally native to the western Atlantic coastal waters.

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Nerve net

A nerve net consists of interconnected neurons lacking a brain or any form of cephalization.

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Netrostoma

Netrostoma is a genus of true jellyfish in the family Cepheidae.

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Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Park

is a quasi-national park in the Shiribeshi Subprefecture of Hokkaidō, Japan.

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Oral arm

An Oral arm is an anatomical structure of "true" sea jellies (or Scyphozoans), which belong to the class Scyphozoa.

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Pelagia noctiluca

Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae.

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Phyllorhiza punctata

Phyllorhiza punctata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the floating bell, Australian spotted jellyfish or the white-spotted jellyfish.

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Pitkin Formation

The Pitkin Formation, or Pitkin Limestone, is a fossiliferous geologic formation in northern Arkansas that dates to the Chesterian Series of the late Mississippian.

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Planula

A planula is the free-swimming, flattened, ciliated, bilaterally symmetric larval form of various cnidarian species.

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Polyp

A polyp in zoology is one of two forms found in the phylum Cnidaria, the other being the medusa.

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Porpita prunella

Porpita prunella is a marine species of hydrozoan organisms within the family Porpitidae.

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Prowfish

The prowfish (Zaprora silenus) is a species of perciform marine fish found in the northern Pacific Ocean.

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Rabbitfish

Rabbitfishes or spinefoots are perciform fishes in the family Siganidae.

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Red Sea sailfin tang

The Red Sea sailfin tang or Desjardin's sailfin tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii) is a marine reef tang in the fish family Acanthuridae.

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Rhizostoma

Rhizostoma is a genus of rhizostomatid jellyfish found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world.

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Rhizostoma pulmo

Rhizostoma pulmo, commonly known as the barrel jellyfish, the dustbin-lid jellyfish or the frilly-mouthed jellyfish, is a scyphomedusa in the family Rhizostomatidae.

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Rhizostomae

Rhizostomae or Rhizostomeae is an order of jellyfish.

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Rhizostomatidae

Rhizostomatidae is a family of cnidarians in the class Scyphozoa.

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Rhopalium

Rhopalia (singular: rhopalium) are small sensory structures of Scyphozoa (typical jellyfish) and Cubozoa (box jellies).

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Rhopilema verrilli

Rhopilema verrilli, or mushroom cap jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish in the family Rhizostomatidae.

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Seafood

Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans.

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Siganus rivulatus

Siganus rivulatus, the marbled spinefoot, rivulated rabbitfish or surf parrotfish, is a gregarious, largely herbivorous ray-finned fish of the family Siganidae.

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Skyphos

A skyphos (σκύφος; plural skyphoi) is a two-handled deep wine-cup on a low flanged base or none.

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Stomolophus

Stomolophus is a genus of true jellyfish from the West Atlantic and Pacific.

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Strobilation

Strobilation or transverse fission is a form of asexual reproduction consisting of the spontaneous transverse segmentation of the body.

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Taxonomy of invertebrates (Brusca & Brusca, 2003)

The taxonomy of invertebrates as proposed by Richard C. Brusca and Gary J. Brusca in 2003 is a system of classification with emphasis on the invertebrates, in other words, a way to classify animals, primarily those which have no backbone.

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Taxonomy of the animals (Hutchins et al., 2003)

The taxonomy of the animals presented by Hutchins et al. in 2003 in Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia is a system of classification which covers all the metazoans, from phyla to orders (or families, for Hexapoda and Pisces, or species, for Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia).

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Tetraplatia

Tetraplatia is a genus of hydrozoans in the order Narcomedusae.

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Traité de Zoologie

The Traité de zoologie des éditions Masson, complete title Traité de zoologie, anatomie, systématique, biologie popularly known as le Grassé is a 52 volume synthesis of Zoology published between 1948 and 1979 originally under the direction of Pierre-Paul Grassé.

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2016 in paleontology

No description.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scyphozoa

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