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Up to 30 cm wide, about 0ne-third as high as wide; marginal lappets of almost equal size and shape; septa between stomach pouches straight, rhopalar pouches in middle portion somewhat broader, at margin considerably narrower than the tentacular pouches; 3 to 5 tentacles per octant; 32 radiating reddish or brown streaks on exumbrella and moreover 16 radiating dark brown, almost black, streaks on subumbrella below the septa between the stomach pouches.
Life cycle and mating behavior Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Αβγά | Γονιμότητα | Προνύμφες
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.