Semaeostomeae
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Semaeostomeae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Scyphozoa Order: Semaeostomeae L. Agassiz, 1862
Families
See text.

Semaeostomeae (literally "flag mouth") is an order of large jellyfish characterized by four long, frilly oral arms flanking its quadrate "mouth". Its gastrovascular system consists of un(really is this true? why yes it is. my jelly fish is my personal night light!)branched pouches and it has no ring canal. Five families have been described.

Families

• Cyaneidae
• Depastridae
• Halicyathidae
• Pelagiidae
• Ulmaridae

Gallery

"Discomedusae". Plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904.

a little less info plz (i no joking my head hurts!!)

References

• Ruppert, Edward E.; and Fox, Richard S. (1988). Seashore Animals of the Southeast, University of South Carolina Press, 273. ISBN 0-87249-535-3.
• Hayward, Peter J.; and Ryland, John S. (1995). Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe, Oxford University Press, 65. ISBN 0-19-854055-8.

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