Vampyrocrossota
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Vampyrocrossota is a genus of jellyfish of the family Rhopalonematidae. The genus only contains one species. Unlike many hydromedusae, these jellyfish do not have a sessile
stage. Rather, they spend their entire lives in the water column as plankton. The genus Vampyrocrossota is only known from the Pacific Ocean off California and Oregon.
Sessility (zoology)
In zoology, sessility is a characteristic of animals which are not able to move about. They are usually permanently attached to a solid substrate of some kind, such as a part of a plant or dead tree trunk, a rock, or the hull of a ship in the case of barnacles. Corals lay down their own...
stage. Rather, they spend their entire lives in the water column as plankton. The genus Vampyrocrossota is only known from the Pacific Ocean off California and Oregon.