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10 cm wide, flatter the a hemisphere, finely granular, jelly of horny rigidity; number of lappets variable, velar lappets about twice as wide as long, rhopalar lappets small and oval,; deep clefts between lappets extend upwards; mouth arms two thirds of the length of diameter, distal three winged portion 2 to 4 up to 7 times as long as proximal simple portion, tapering to pointed distal ends; intracircular mesh work with rather wide meshes, extracircular mesh work fine meshed, extending into the lappets.
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Scyphozoa are gonochoric. Life cycle: Egg is laid by the adult medusa which later develops into a free-living planula, then to a scyphistoma to a strobila, and lastly to a free-living young medusa.