INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY - H. I. Shcherbak - 2008

KINGDOM MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS (METAZOA)

SUBKINGDOM TRUE MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS (EUMETAZOA)

SECTION DIBLOBLASTICA, OR RADIATA

PHYLUM CNIDARIA, OR COELENTERATA

SUBPHYLUM MEDUSOZOA

CLASS CUBOZOA

Deep-sea tropical marine jellyfish. The bell is cubic in shape with four tentacles (Fig. 88). Unlike scyphozoans, they lack radial canals, a function fulfilled by large gastric pockets. Cubozoans also differ in their metamorphosis: the polyp developing from a planula buds off numerous daughter individuals, each of which transforms into a jellyfish.

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Fig. 88. Cubomedusa Charybdea (order Cubomedusae) (after Beklemishev)



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