Scyphozoa: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Scientific Name: Scyphozoa

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Scyphozoa

The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, 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.

Scyphozoans have existed from the earliest Cambrian to the present.

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Scyphozoa in languages:

Afrikaans: Jellievisse
Afrikaans: Drilvisse
Afrikaans: Seekwalle
Basque: Eszifozoo
Bokmål: stormaneter
Catalan: Escifozous
Chinese: 缽水母綱
Croatian: Režnjaci
Czech: medúzovci
Danish: Storgopler
Dutch: schijfkwallen
English: True Jellies
English: Jellyfish
English: Scyphozoans
Estonian: Karikloomad
Finnish: meduusat
Galician: Escifozoos
German: Schirmquallen
German: Scheibenquallen
Hebrew: מדוזות אמיתיות
Hebrew: מדוזות-סוכך
Hungarian: Kehelyállatok
Indonesian: Ubur-Ubur Sejati
Italian: Scifozoi
Italian: Scifomeduse
Japanese: 鉢虫綱
Korean: 해파리강
Lithuanian: Scifomedūzos
Modern Greek: Σκυφόζωα
Polish: Krążkopławy
Portuguese: águas-vivas
Portuguese: medusas
Portuguese: cifozoários
Russian: Сцифоидные
Swedish: maneter
Thai: ไซโฟซัว
Thai: ชั้น แมงกะพรุนแท้
Turkish: Büyük denizanaları
Ukrainian: Сцифоїдні

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Scyphozoa: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Scyphozoa

Scyphozoa in languages:

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Scyphozoa: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Scyphozoa

Scyphozoa in languages:

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Parent Taxon

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