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7 cm wide, flatly rounded; valer lappets semisircular, six in each octant, the two median lappets split; subumbrella and mouth-arms with white spots; mouth-arms twice as long as disk raius, the simple upper part somewhat longer than the lower three-winged part; terminal appendage long and club-shaped; intracircular mesh-work of canals with large, open meshes; about seven canal-roots in each octant, all rhopalar canals with anastomoses.
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.