- kind of
drinking cup and
alluding to the cup
shape of the organism.
Scyphozoans have
existed from the
earliest Cambrian to the present. Most species...
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Jellyfish are
found all over the world, from
surface waters to the deep sea.
Scyphozoans (the "true jellyfish") are
exclusively marine, but some
hydrozoans with...
-
include many open-ocean
scyphozoans. The
attaching types include all
anthozoans with a
planula stage, many
coastal scyphozoans, and some hydrozoans. The...
- valves.
Stranded scyphozoans (jellyfish) in a
partially flooded quarry. Due to the flat,
horizontal bedding at this quarry, the
scyphozoans shown in the background...
- the
swimming muscles. Most
cnidarians also have a
parallel system. In
scyphozoans, this
takes the form of a
diffuse nerve net,
which has
modulatory effects...
- They
possess rhopalia that are
structurally similar to
those of the
scyphozoans, but the
variation of cell
types and
specifically ocelli are more complex...
-
there are
suctorial minimouth ****s. (This is in
contrast to
other scyphozoans,
which have four of
these arms.)
These oral arms
become fused as they...
- a
cnidarian that
lived in
Northern Illinois. It was long
considered a
scyphozoan, but is now
regarded as a Sea
anemone Concavicaris was a long lasting...
- An oral arm is an
anatomical structure of "true" sea
jellies (or
Scyphozoans),
which belong to the
class Scyphozoa. Oral arms
characterize Semaeostomeae...
-
polyp stage may or may not be present,
depending on the family. In
those scyphozoans that have the
larval planula metamorphose into a polyp, the polyp, also...
