The fried egg jelly fish is a very large jellyfish, up to a meter across, so named because of its resemblance to a fried egg. The large jellyfish eats smaller jellies and by so doing, picks up small parasites that live on its prey. These small parasites that eat the fried egg's flesh, are then eaten by small crabs that live on the jellyfishes external membrane in a symbiotic relationship with the jellyfish. The jellyfish has its parasites removed, and the crab is given a steady food source and a place to live.
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