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How does a scyphozoan polyp produce young jellyfish?
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A sea anemone from the genus Tealia attached to a rock.
In most scyphozoan species, the sessile polyp stage, known as a scyphistoma, produces young jellyfish through a process called strobilation.12
During this asexual process, the scyphistoma undergoes transverse fission at its oral end, effectively budding off immature, free-swimming medusae called ephyrae. These eight-armed ephyrae then grow and develop into adult medusae, which represent the mature, free-swimming form of the jellyfish.123