{"id":17613,"date":"2023-12-01T02:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17613"},"modified":"2025-04-05T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:59:10","slug":"santjordia-pagesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/santjordia-pagesi\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Santjordia pagesi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Santjordia pagesi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Santjordia pagesi, also called St.\u00a0George\u2019s cross medusa jellyfish, is a newly discovered\u00a0species of jellyfish.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered \u201crare\u201d and has been\u00a0found only in\u00a0the Sumisu Caldera\u00a0near the\u00a0Ogasawara Islands, about 600 miles southeast of Tokyo,\u00a0Japan.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSantjordia\u201d refers to Saint George in Catalan, representing its cross-shaped stomach.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It is considered large at 4 inches wide and 3 inches tall.<\/li>\n<li>It boasts a circular body with around\u00a0240 tentacles.<\/li>\n<li>Its\u00a0body looks almost like\u00a0a see-through cushion. It has a thick white ring running along its lower edge.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Smaller\u00a0vein-like structures stretch from its prominent\u00a0central stomach to the outer ring.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its most distinctive feature is a\u00a0bright red, cross-shaped stomach.<\/li>\n<li>The jellyfish\u2019s distinct features suggest it\u00a0may\u00a0possess a novel cnidarian venom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a Jellyfish?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A jellyfish is a type of\u00a0marine animal belonging to the\u00a0phylum Cnidaria, which includes creatures such as sea anemones, sea whips, and corals.<\/li>\n<li>Like all members of the phylum, the\u00a0body parts of a jellyfish\u00a0radiate from a central axis.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These\u00a0are found in oceans around the world and come in various shapes and sizes.<\/li>\n<li>Jellyfish have a\u00a0soft, transparent, and umbrella-shaped bell that can\u00a0pulsate for movement. Hanging from the bell are tentacles.<\/li>\n<li>Jellyfish have\u00a0tiny stinging cells in their tentacles to stun or paralyze their prey before they eat them.<\/li>\n<li>Inside their bell-shaped\u00a0body is an opening that is its mouth. They eat and discard waste from this opening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Caldera?<\/h3>\n<p>A caldera is a depression created after a volcano releases the majority of the contents of its magma chamber in an explosive eruption. Without any structural support below, the land around the erupting volcanic vent or vents collapses inwardly, creating the bowl-shaped caldera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/trending\/mysterious-jellyfish-with-240-tentacles-discovered-as-new-species-off-japans-coast-664630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>&#8216;Mysterious&#8217; jellyfish with 240 tentacles discovered off Japan&#8217;s coast declared a new species<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santjordia pagesi, also called St. George\u2019s cross medusa jellyfish, is a newly discovered species of jellyfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}