The Comb Jellies and Others 



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departure of the first ephyrula, the others soon detach 

 themselves to pursue their Individual ways. They will 

 continue to grow, and in their turn produce eggs, until 

 six months later, when their cycle of life is complete, 

 the autumnal storms will have brought about their 

 death and disintegration. 



STKOBIl.A OF AURELIA. 



Regardless of their common name, "jellyfishes" are 

 not, in any sense of the word, fishes. They, together 

 with comb jellies*,' belong to a very different and far 

 lower phylum known as the Ccelenterata, a division of 

 the animal kingdom that includes also the plantlike 

 hydroids, the anemones/ and the corals. Nor must it 

 be inferred that all jellyfishes develop in exactly the 

 §ame way as iVurelia or Cyanea. Some there are which 



