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Aglantha digitale is a species of hydrozoan in the family Rhopalonematidae. It is found in the Arctic and sub-Arctic where it is one of the most common jellyfish. It is unusual in having both a slow swimming action, through pulsating its bell, and a rapid escape response.
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.
Chirodectes illustration of Chirodectes maculatus Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Cubozoa Order: Chirodropida Family: Chirodropidae Genus: Chirodectes Gershwin, 2006 Type species Chirodectes maculatus (Cornelius, Fenner & Hore, 2005) Chirodectes is a very rare, monospecific genus of box jellyfish in the family Chirodropidae. The first and ...
A scale illustration of an Irukandji jellyfish and its tentacles.Below the jelly's medusa bell are two polyp forms of the species.. Irukandji jellyfish are very small, with a bell about 5 millimetres (0.20 in) to 25 millimetres (0.98 in) wide and four long tentacles, which range in length from just a few centimetres up to 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length.
Pelagia noctiluca is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia. [1] It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, [3] [4] but other common names are purple-striped jelly (causing potential confusion with Chrysaora colorata), [5] purple stinger, purple people eater, [6] purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish and night-light ...
Stygiomedusa gigantea, [a] commonly known as the giant phantom jelly, is the only species in the monotypic genus of deep sea jellyfish, Stygiomedusa. It is in the Ulmaridae family . [ 2 ] With only around 110 sightings in 110 years, it is a jellyfish that is rarely seen, but believed to be widespread throughout the world, with the exception of ...
Most of the large, often colorful, and conspicuous jellyfish found in coastal waters throughout the world are Scyphozoa. [4] They typically range from 2 to 40 cm (1 to 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter, but the largest species, Cyanea capillata can reach 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) across. Scyphomedusae are found throughout the world's oceans, from the ...
Copula is a monotypic genus of box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae of the phylum Cnidaria. The only species in the genus is Copula sivickisi, a very small gelatinous, bell-shaped jellyfish with four tentacles that is active only at night. It is unusual among box jellyfish in having a mating ritual and internal fertilization.