Craspedacusta sowerbii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hydrozoa |
Order: | Limnomedusae |
Family: | Olindiidae |
Genus: | Craspedacusta |
Species: | C. sowerbii
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Binomial name | |
Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880
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Craspedacusta sowerbii or peach blossom jellyfish[1] is a species of freshwater hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa cnidarian. Hydromedusan jellyfish differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because they have a muscular, shelf-like structure called a velum on the ventral surface, attached to the bell margin. Originally from the Yangtze basin in China, C. sowerbii is an introduced species now found throughout the world in bodies of fresh water.[2]