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Figure 1. Anatomy of the moon
jelly, Aurelia aurita. Redrawn from Barnes 1980.

Figure 2. Life cycle of
the moon jelly, Aurelia aurita showing
typical Scyphozoan life stages. Embryos develop into a free-swimming
larval stage called the planula that settles to the bottom and develops into the
scyphistoma. This stage develops into a strobila that buds off many tiny
ephyra that later develop into the familiar jellyfish form of the medusa. Redrawn from
Barnes 1980.
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