Feature: Mastigias.
Learn more about How the jellyfish lost its spots
and some useful new resources on jellyfish

First published online April 2003, this is the fourth edition of The Scyphozoan. Please see the list of additions to the site since June 2004 which include new jellyfish images, a gradually growing bibliography with downloadable PDFs, a repository for (portal to) published datasets, and this issue's jellyfish feature.

The Scyphozoan is an internet resource dedicated to integrating and disseminating information describing jellyfishes in Class Scyphozoa. It is a venue for scyphozoan biologists of all kinds to present historical and modern knowledge, in simplified form, to non-specialists including aquarists, coastal managers, educators, fisheries biologists, students, and the interested general public, who may all have first hand experience with jellyfishes. We openly invite contributions with which the site will be updated a couple of times a year, including a list of recent additions. Shortcuts to all sections of the site, new and old, are available via the site map. As the site grows, we will add databases and search engines to help you navigate. We hope that The Scyphozoan will become a regular repository for, and generator of, new information on this enigmatic group.

If you find a jellyfish and would like to know what it is, send pictures and a sample to us! We will identify the animals to the best of our ability as well as sequence molecular markers from the mitochondrial genome (16S rDNA, Cytochrome Oxidase c subunit I) and nuclear genome (18S, ITS1, 5.8S, ITS2, 28S) and send the information to you. Please click here for details.

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This site is continually growing. Please bear with us and inform us of any faults. Thank you!