A collaborative team of Japanese and Brazilian scientists has identified a new species of jellyfish with distinctive features, aptly named the St. George’s Cross Medusa (Santjordia pagesi or S.

Larvae mature into polyps, which will then bud off and mature into young jellyfish.' An adult jellyfish is known as a medusa. Jellyfish belong to a group called Cnidaria, which also includes sea ...

"For example, in Horseshoe Bay on Magnetic Island, we now know that the polyp stage of the box jellyfish is in the bay, so it's a high-risk area for swimmers as those polyps grow into medusae," he ...

Most are free-swimming species with the characteristic bell-shaped body, also called a medusa. Cubozoans are more commonly known as box jellyfish. They differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because of ...

THE freshwater medusa Limnocnida tanganyicae has been known for more than seventy years from the lakes of East, West and Central Africa. Until very recently, no evidence had been found for the ...