Image of Fried egg jellyfish
Description:
This medusa, about 35 cm. high, was photographed at 7 m. depth. The egg-yolk, orange feeding lobes hang below the light yellow gonads and the gut. These medusae may occur offshore in huge numbers where they prey on other gelatinous organisms and on crustaceans which they entrap in their venormous tentacles.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Scyphozoa (true jellyfish)
- Discomedusae
- Semaeostomeae
- Phacellophora
- Phacellophora camtschatica (Fried egg jellyfish)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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