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9 cm wide, 2 cm high, exumbrella flat, rim vertical; exumbrella with a zone of numerous low warts leaving central portion free; about 72 marginal lappets, 7 velar and 2 ocular in each octant, rectangular, separated by very slightly indentations which are spanned by a web; 8 bifurcated moutharms with numerous short filaments, and in middle region 4 to 12 long, tapering, wart covering filaments.
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.