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Subphylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Medusozoa

WoRMS 1740301key worms:1740301
Silhouette · Qiang Ou · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Yunnanoascus haikouensis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Lion’s mane jellyfish amongst kelp off Rathlin Island
Photo · Polygonia c-album · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Medusozoa is a clade in the phylum Cnidaria, and is often considered a subphylum. It includes the classes Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Staurozoa and Cubozoa.W CalCOFI holds 1,648 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010, across 2 taxa under it.R

1,648
observations
2,010
records
1951–2010
years
1
datasets
0
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1740301")