Organisms

Scyphozoa

The class of true jellyfish, in the phylum CNIDARIA. They are mostly free-swimming marine organisms that go through five stages in their life cycle and exhibit two body forms: polyp and medusa.

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The class of true jellyfish, in the phylum CNIDARIA. They are mostly free-swimming marine organisms that go through five stages in their life cycle and exhibit two body forms: polyp and medusa.

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  • Jellyfish, True
  • Jellyfishs, True
  • Scyphozoas
  • True Jellyfish
  • True Jellyfishs
  • Aurelia aurita
  • Chrysaora fuscescens
  • Jellyfish, Moon
  • Moon Jelly
  • Moon Jellyfish
  • Sea Nettle, Pacific
  • Sea Nettle, West Coast
  • Aurelia auritas
  • Chrysaora fuscescen
  • Jellies, Moon
  • Jelly, Moon
  • Jellyfishs, Moon
  • Moon Jellies
  • Moon Jellyfishs
  • Nettle, Pacific Sea
  • Nettles, Pacific Sea
  • Pacific Sea Nettle
  • Pacific Sea Nettles
  • Sea Nettles, Pacific
  • auritas, Aurelia
  • fuscescens, Chrysaora

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Indexed with the subheadings anatomy & histology, chemistry, classification, cytology, drug effects, embryology, enzymology, genetics, growth & development, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, pathogenicity, physiology, radiation effects, ultrastructure, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

do not confuse the genus Aurelia with the species Paramecium aurelia

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History Note

2003

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Previous Indexing

  • Cnidaria (1971-2002)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Scyphozoa. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D037401. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D037401
  2. Scyphozoa. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scyphozoa
  3. Scyphozoa. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272388