Few jellies can match the brilliant crimson-red color of this coronate scyphozoan.  The flattened bell with 16 marginal lappets has a thick central disc and a distinct annular furrow.  It reaches a diameter of about 5 cm.  The 8 tentacles alternate with 8 rhopalia.  The simple cross-shaped mouth has 4 lips and connects with a dark red stomach.  Eight gonads with a dark red color have a round or triangular shape.  This is a deep-water species, and has been collected with mid-water trawls below 800 meters off southern California (San Clemente Basin) and Hawaii.  There is some uncertainty as to the correct species name, hence the question mark.  

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