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Phyllorhiza
''Phyllorhiza'' is a genus of jellyfish in the family Mastigiidae. Species The following species are recognized in the genus Phyllorhiza: *'' Phyllorhiza pacifica'' (Light, 1921) *'' Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri'' Goy, 1990 *''Phyllorhiza punctata ''Phyllorhiza punctata'' is a species of jellyfish, also known as the floating bell, Australian spotted jellyfish, brown jellyfish or the white-spotted jellyfish. It is native to the western Pacific from Australia to Japan, but has been intro ...'' Lendenfeld, 1884 References Mastigiidae Scyphozoan genera {{scyphozoa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllorhiza Punctata
''Phyllorhiza punctata'' is a species of jellyfish, also known as the floating bell, Australian spotted jellyfish, brown jellyfish or the white-spotted jellyfish. It is native to the western Pacific from Australia to Japan, but has been introduced widely elsewhere. It feeds primarily on zooplankton. ''P. punctata'' generally can reach up to in bell diameter, but in October 2007, one wide, perhaps the largest ever recorded, was found on Sunset Beach, North Carolina. Description True jellyfish go through a two-stage life cycle which consists of a medusa stage (adult) and a polyp stage (juvenile). In the medusa stage, male jellyfish release sperm into the water column and the female jellyfish gathers the sperm into her mouth where she holds the eggs. Once fertilization occurs and larvae are formed they leave their mother and settle to the ocean floor. Once on the bottom a polyp form occurs and this form reproduces asexually by "cloning" or dividing itself into other polyps. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllorhiza Pacifica
''Phyllorhiza'' is a genus of jellyfish in the family Mastigiidae. Species The following species are recognized in the genus Phyllorhiza: *'' Phyllorhiza pacifica'' (Light, 1921) *'' Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri'' Goy, 1990 *''Phyllorhiza punctata ''Phyllorhiza punctata'' is a species of jellyfish, also known as the floating bell, Australian spotted jellyfish, brown jellyfish or the white-spotted jellyfish. It is native to the western Pacific from Australia to Japan, but has been intro ...'' Lendenfeld, 1884 References Mastigiidae Scyphozoan genera {{scyphozoa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllorhiza Peronlesueuri
''Phyllorhiza'' is a genus of jellyfish in the family Mastigiidae. Species The following species are recognized in the genus Phyllorhiza: *''Phyllorhiza pacifica'' (Light, 1921) *'' Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri'' Goy, 1990 *''Phyllorhiza punctata ''Phyllorhiza punctata'' is a species of jellyfish, also known as the floating bell, Australian spotted jellyfish, brown jellyfish or the white-spotted jellyfish. It is native to the western Pacific from Australia to Japan, but has been intro ...'' Lendenfeld, 1884 References Mastigiidae Scyphozoan genera {{scyphozoa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mastigiidae
Mastigiidae is a family of true jellyfish. The family is native to the Indo-Pacific, but a species of ''Mastigias'' has been introduced to the West Atlantic, and ''Phyllorhiza punctata'' has been introduced to the West Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.Cevik, C., O. B. Derici1, F. Cevik and L. Cavas (2011). ''First record of Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Mastigiidae) from Turkey.'' Aquatic Invasions 6(1): S27–S28 Genera According to the ''World Register of Marine Species'', this family includes 4 genera: * ''Mastigias'' * '' Mastigietta'' * '' Phyllorhiza'' * '' Versuriga'' – probably belongs in a separate monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ... family, Versurigidae.Daly, Brugler, Cartwright, Collins, Dawson, Fautin, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jellyfish
Jellyfish and sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles, although a few are anchored to the seabed by stalks rather than being mobile. The bell can pulsate to provide propulsion for highly efficient animal locomotion, locomotion. The tentacles are armed with Cnidocyte, stinging cells and may be used to capture prey and defend against predators. Jellyfish have a complex Biological life cycle, life cycle; the medusa is normally the sexual phase, which produces planula larvae that disperse widely and enter a sedentary polyp (zoology), polyp phase before reaching sexual maturity. Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to the deep sea. Scyphozoans (the "true jellyfish") are exclusively marine habitats, marine, but some hydrozoans with a simila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
