Species Profile
Aurelia
Moon jellyfish
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCoelenterata
ClassScyphozoa
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Aurelia lives in marine waters.
Pelagic and carnivorous.
Used in cnidarian studies.
Size & Structure
01
Umbrella-shaped body
02
Transparent
03
Four horseshoe-shaped gonads
Aurelia — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Radial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular and intracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve net with marginal sense organs
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Predator of plankton
Marine food web link
Economic Importance
Research organism
Aquarium display species