scyphozoans

scyphozoans
n.; n. pl. [Gr. scyphos, cup; zoon, animal]
An exclusively marine class in the Phylum Cnidaria, in which the medusoid stage predominates having 8 notches in the margin of the bell; jellyfishes.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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