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Drymonema larsoni

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Scyphozoa

Phylum
  
Cnidaria

Rank
  
Species

Subphylum
  
Medusozoa

Family
  
Drymonematidae

Genus
  
Drymonema

Order
  
Semaeostomeae

Similar
  
Drymonema, Diplulmaris antarctica, Semaeostomeae, Tiburonia granrojo, Desmonema

Drymonema larsoni (also known as the "pink meanie") is a species of jellyfish belonging to the class Scyphozoa. Following a mass sighting in 2000 in the Gulf of Mexico, the species and the rest of its genus were put in their own family, a new subset of the true jellyfish.

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Drymonema larsoni Wikipedia