Chrysaora melanaster
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The Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora melanaster), also called a northern sea nettle or brown jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish
native to the eastern Pacific Ocean
. It is sometimes referred to as a Pacific sea nettle, but this name is also used for Chrysaora fuscescens
.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and refers to any free-swimming jellyfish stages in the phylum Cnidaria...
native to the eastern Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
. It is sometimes referred to as a Pacific sea nettle, but this name is also used for Chrysaora fuscescens
Chrysaora fuscescens
Chrysaora fuscescens is a common free-floating scyphozoa that lives in the Pacific Ocean, and is commonly known as the Pacific Sea Nettle or West Coast Sea Nettle....
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