Spotted jelly
For the Australian spotted jellyfish or white-spotted jellyfish, see Phyllorhiza punctata.
| Spotted jelly | |
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| At the Monterey Bay Aquarium | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Scyphozoa |
| Order: | Rhizostomeae |
| Family: | Mastigiidae |
| Genus: | Mastigias |
| Species: | M. papua |
| Binomial name | |
| Mastigias papua Lesson, 1830 | |
The spotted jelly, lagoon jelly, golden medusa, or Papuan jellyfish (Mastigias papua) is a species of jellyfish from the Indo-Pacific. Instead of one single mouth, they have several smaller mouth openings in their oral arms, which are used to feed on zooplankton.[1]
They have a lifespan of approximately 4 months and are active primarily in mid-summer to early autumn.[2]
Video of Mastigias papua
Footnotes
- ↑ "Spotted jelly". Monterey Bay Aquarium. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
- ↑ タコクラゲ. Shirahama Aquarium (in Japanese). Retrieved August 3, 2012.
External links
Media related to Mastigias papua at Wikimedia Commons- Mastigias papua at Animal Diversity Web
- Mastigias papua at Monterey Bay Aquarium
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