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Published online 9 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040202-17

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Four-armed jellyfish found

Bumpy sea creature is new species.

HelenR. Pilcher

Researchers have discovered a new species of jellyfish so different from its fellow creatures that it merits a new subfamily. The diaphanous beast, which dwells in deep waters off California, has a bell-shaped body and four fleshy arms.

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