Spotted jelly
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For the Australian spotted jellyfish or white-spotted jellyfish, see Phyllorhiza punctata.
The spotted jelly (Mastigias papua), lagoon jelly, golden medusa, or Papuan jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish from the Indo-Pacific oceans. Like corals, sea anemones, and other sea jellies, it belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Mastigias papua is one of the numerous marine animals living in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic alga.[2]
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Spotted jelly | |
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Specimens at the Monterey Bay Aquarium | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Scyphozoa |
Order: | Rhizostomeae |
Family: | Mastigiidae |
Genus: | Mastigias |
Species: | M. papua |
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Mastigias papua Lesson, 1830 | |
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