Cephea

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Cephea
File:Cauliflour Jellyfish, Cephea cephea at Marsa Shouna, Red Sea, Egypt SCUBA.jpg
Cephea cephea
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Cephea

Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Species

2–3 species, see text

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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.

Species

A Cephea jellyfish at Mactan, Cebu, Philippines

According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus includes the following species:[1]

References

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