Semaeostomeae
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| Semaeostomeae | |
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| Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Scyphozoa |
| Order: | Semaeostomeae L. Agassiz, 1862 |
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Semaeostomeae (literally "flag mouth") is an order of large jellyfish characterized by four long, frilly oral arms flanking their quadrate mouths. The umbrella is domed with scalloped margins, and the gastrovascular system consists of four unbranched pouches radiating outwards from the central stomach; there is no ring canal.They usually possess eight tentacles among which four are per-radical and 4 are inter-radical.[1]
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"Discomedusae". Plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904.
References
- Ruppert, Edward E.; and Fox, Richard S. (1988). Seashore Animals of the Southeast, University of South Carolina Press, 273. ISBN 0-87249-535-3.
- Hayward, Peter J.; and Ryland, John S. (1995). Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe, Oxford University Press, 65. ISBN 0-19-854055-8.
- Bayha K., Dawson M. (2010) New family of allomorphic jellyfishes, Drymonematidae (Scyphozoa, Discomedusae), emphasizes evolution in the functional morphology and trophic ecology of gelatinous zooplankton. Biological Bulletin 219: 249–267.
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