- 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...
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include many open-ocean
scyphozoans. The
attaching types include all
anthozoans with a
planula stage, many
coastal scyphozoans, and some hydrozoans. The...
- 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...
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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...
- They
possess rhopalia that are
structurally similar to
those of the
scyphozoans, but the
variation of cell
types and
specifically ocelli are more complex...
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their time on or near the bottom.
Their diet
consists prin****lly of
scyphozoans and salps;
prowfish use
their large mouths to tear
chunks from the bells...
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family Drymonematidae was the
first new
addition of true
jellyfish (
scyphozoans)
described since 1921.
Drymonema dalmatinum Haeckel, 1880
Drymonema gorgo...
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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...
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analysis also
found the
presence of fish, krill, amphipods, cephalopods, and
scyphozoan jellyfish in
their diet. Blue
whales appear to
avoid directly competing...
