Scyphozoa
Class of marine cnidarians, true jellyfish / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Scyphozoa | |
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Cephea cephea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Subphylum: | Medusozoa |
Class: | Scyphozoa Götte, 1887 |
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The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria,[2] referred to as the true jellyfish (or "true jellies").
The class name Scyphozoa comes from the Greek word skyphos (σκύφος), denoting a kind of drinking cup and alluding to the cup shape of the organism.[3]
Scyphozoans have existed from the earliest Cambrian to the present.[1]