Close-up shot of the Cassiopea "upside-down" jellyfish at Kaiyukan Aquarium in Osaka

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Cassiopea (upside-down jellyfish) is a genus of true jellyfish and the only members of the family Cassiopeidae.[1] They are found in warmer coastal regions around the world, including shallow mangrove swamps, mudflats, canals, and turtle grass flats in Florida. The medusa usually lives upside-down on the bottom, which has earned them the common name. Where found, there may be numerous individuals with varying shades of white, blue, green and brown.

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Keywords: animalia, aquarium, aquatic, cassiopea, cassiopeidae, close-, cnidaria, dangerous, invertebrate, japan, jellyfish, kaiyukan, kolpophorae, osaka, photosynthetic, rhizostomae, scyphozoa, tentacles, underwater, upside-, zooxanthella