Marivagia (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marivagia is a monotypic genus of jellyfish, containing only the species, Marivagia stellata, that was first described in 2010 following the discovery of several specimens on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Star-shaped and with a diameter of about 15 centimeters, M. stellata is "life translucent bluish-white jelly, with conspicuous pattern of reddish stars, dots and streaks clustered in centre third of exumbrella." Three characteristics of the Cepheidae family, the radial canals, exumbrellar morphology and subumbrellar appendages, place it firmly among the Cepheids. Genetic analysis also placed it in close proximity to the Cepheids. M. stellata, however, displays several markedly different morpholgical features from all other Cepheid genera and cannot be placed within an existing genus.