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Cephea
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Cephea

Cephea is a genus of true jellyfish in the family Cepheidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific and East Atlantic. They are sometimes called crown jellyfish, but this can cause confusion with the closely related genus Netrostoma or the distantly related species in the order Coronatae.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Cauliflower Jelly

speciesCephea cephea

Cephea coerulea

speciesCephea coerulea

Cephea octostyla

speciesCephea octostyla

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 120970.