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This jellyfish must be Chrysaora pacifica, as it has 40 tentacles (5 per octant). Chrysaora melanaster has only 24 tentacles (3 per octant) (Morandini & Maruquess, 2011). Perhaps the aquarium keeps polyps originally imported from Japan (probably, Enoshima Aquarium). Monterey Bay Aquarium must have the correct starain of the species ''Ch. melanaster''.

Morandini AC, Marques AC (2011) Revision of the genus Chrysaora Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Zootaxa 2464: 1–97 PDF See also photograph at Arctic Ocean Diversity. Chrysaora melanaster --125.30.108.45 (talk) 02:21, 13 September 2012 (UTC)