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Common Jellyfish

Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus 1758)

Description

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Width 15-30 cm. Bell flat to domed, firm, translucent, with four (or 5-7) bluish-pink gonad rings, four mouth-arms and hundreds of fine marginal tentacles. Swarms. Habitat: coastal. Distribution: all seas (Richmond, 1997).
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Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. <em>Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium.</em> 283 pp. van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Esther Fondo [email]

Distribution

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Cosmopolitan species.
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Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. <em>Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium.</em> 283 pp. van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Habitat

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upper epipelagic
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Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. <em>Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium.</em> 283 pp. van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Mary Kennedy [email]

Habitat

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coastal
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bibliographic citation
Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. <em>Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium.</em> 283 pp. van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Jacob van der Land [email]