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The Scyphozoan Jellyfishes

Bob Fenner

Upside down Jelly

 
 
A "plate" of strobilizing Aurelia aurita on display at the Stephen Birch Aq., SIO. Such sources of Scyphozoans and Hydrozoans are commonly introduced on hard surfaces (e.g. Live Rock, Stony Coral bases...)

 

Cassiopeia, the "Upside-down Jellyfish". Sometimes sold as an aquarium species. These are shallow water lagoon and mangrove swamp animals that use both photosynthesis (via symbiotic algae) and many small mouths scattered on their "tentacles" (eight oral-arms) to suck-in zooplankton for food. Favored foods of Ocean Sunfishes and marine turtles.

Cassiopeia frondosa. Here in Jamaica

 


Chrysaora quinquecirrha. a darling of public aquariums. One of a few "sea nettles". Here at the Shaw Centre, Victoria, B.C., Canada 2010

 


Nausithoe punctata Kolliker 1853. "0.9 to 1.5 cm. wide, discodial, central disk thick, without radiating furrows, finely punctured; gastral filaments not grouped in clusters; large gonads." "Members of the class Scyphozoa are gonochoric. Life cycle: Egg is laid by the adult medusa which later develops into a free-living planula, then to a scyphistoma to a strobila, and lastly to a free-living young medusa " https://www.sealifebase.ca/summary/Nausithoe-punctata.html Here scyphistomes are infesting a sponge in the Red Sea 2019.  

 



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