Fig. 5. The scaling of bell morphology with body mass. Linear regressions found by reduced major axis (black line; b) were significantly different (see Table 1 for statistics) from the null hypothesis (green line; b_o), which predicts geometric similarity in bell height (A), bell diameter (B) and the ratio of height to diameter (C). The gray silhouettes in C approximate the bell shape of small and large medusae.

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