Scyphozoa

Scyphozoa
Temporal range: Fortunian – Recent[1]
Cephea cephea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Medusozoa
Class: Scyphozoa
Götte, 1887
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Fossilized stranded scyphozoans on a Cambrian tidal flat at Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin.

The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria,[2] 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.[3]

Scyphozoans have existed from the earliest Cambrian to the present.[1]

  1. ^ a b Liu, Yunhuan; Shao, Tiequan; Zhang, Huaqiao; Wang, Qi; Zhang, Yanan; Chen, Cheng; Liang, Yongchun; Xue, Jiaqi (2017). "A new scyphozoan from the Cambrian Fortunian Stage of South China". Palaeontology. 60 (4): 511–518. doi:10.1111/pala.12306.
  2. ^ Dawson, Michael N. "The Scyphozoan". Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  3. ^ Towle, Albert (1989). Modern biology. Austin, Texas: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0030139192.