Spotted jelly

Spotted jelly
	Specimens at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Scyphozoa
Order:	Rhizostomeae
Family:	Mastigiidae
Genus:	Mastigias
Species:	M. papua
Binomial name
	Mastigias papua; Lesson, 1830
Synonyms
	Cephea papua Lesson, 1830 ; Mastigias papua var. Sibogae Maas, 1903 ; Mastigias physophora Kishinouye, 1895 ; Pseudorhiza thocambaui Agassiz & Mayer, 1899 ;

The spotted jelly (Mastigias papua), lagoon jelly, golden medusa, or Papuan jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish from the Indo-Pacific oceans. Like corals, sea anemones, and other sea jellies, it belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Mastigias papua is one of the numerous marine animals living in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic alga.^[2]

^ Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C. (2023). World List of Scyphozoa. Mastigias papua (Lesson, 1830). Accessed through WoRMS on 2023-05-29.
^ "Spotted jelly". Monterey Bay Aquarium. Retrieved 2018-02-25.

[1] Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C. (2023). World List of Scyphozoa. Mastigias papua (Lesson, 1830). Accessed through WoRMS on 2023-05-29.

[monterey-2] "Spotted jelly". Monterey Bay Aquarium. Retrieved 2018-02-25.

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