Ali Delavar - Master of Marine Biology, Chabahar Maritime University

The first example of Marivagia stellata the coast at the southern entrance to the port city of Haifa Shikmona, were collected in 2006. Photos of this species taken and then sent to Australia for identification, but along the way was the nature of your nature. Near Bat Galim larger samples were collected on June 29, 2010, while a smaller sample in Beit Yanai was found on 7 July. July and star-shaped with a diameter of about 15 cm was found, M. stellata is life bluish-white translucent jelly, with a clear pattern of red stars, dots and streaks in the third cluster center exumbrella . Three features of family Cepheidae, radial channels, morphology exumbrella and appendices subumbrella, place it firmly among the Cepheids. Genetic analysis also put it in close proximity to Cepheids. M. stellata, however, show several morphological characteristics significantly different from the other genus Cepheid and can not be placed in the same genus available

Marivagia stellata, jellyfish , Chabahar Bay , cepheid