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Fijian moon jellyfish

Aurelia vitiana

Classification

Family
Ulmaridae

Aurelia is a genus of jellyfish that are commonly called moon jellies, which are in the class Scyphozoa. There are currently 25 accepted species and many that are still not formally described. The genus was first described in 1816 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in his book Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres (Natural History of Invertebrates).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog