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THE striking pigmentation of a large form of the purple-striped Scyphomedusan Pelagia noctiluca (Forskål), which is encountered occasionally in the coastal waters of California, involves three main pigments—magenta, brown and blue.
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MILLOTT, N., FOX, D. Pigmentation of the Jellyfish, Pelagia noctiluca . Nature 173, 169 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173169a0
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