Rhizostomeae

• Order Rhizostomeae (Cuvier 1799)
• Characteristics of the Order (from Kramp 1961)

Scyphomedusae with umbrella margin cleft into lappets; without marginal tentacles; without a central mouth opening, but with numerous mouths upon eight adradial, fleshy, branched, arm-like appendages arising from the centre of the subumbrella; with rhopalia between marginal clefts.

Rhizostomeae Species

Based largely on Kramp (1961), Mianzan & Cornelius (1999)

Collections: M = morphology, D = DNA, Type = *

Key:

Family (8)

• Genus (27)
  • Species (95) [92 morphological + 3 molecular]
    

Cassiopeidae

Cassiopea andromeda (Forskål 1775)

L. Agassiz 1862

• Cassiopea Péron & Lesueur 1810 
  • Cassiopea andromeda (Forskål 1775) pictured
  • Cassiopea depressa Haeckel 1880
  • Cassiopea frondosa (Pallas 1774)
  • Cassiopea medusa Light 1914
  • Cassiopea mertensi Brandt 1838
  • Cassiopea ndrosia Agassiz & Mayer 1899
  • Cassiopea ornata Haeckel 1880
  • Cassiopea picta Vanhöffen 1888
  • Cassiopea vanderhorsti Stiasny 1922
  • Cassiopea sp. 1 see Holland et al. 2004
  • Cassiopea sp. 2 see Holland et al. 2004
  • Cassiopea sp. 3 see Holland et al. 2004

Catostylidae

Gegenbaur 1857

• AcromitoidesStiasny 1921
  • Acromitoides purpurus (Mayer 1910)
  • Acromitoides stiphropterus (Schultze 1897)
• Acromitus Light 1914 *
  • Acromitus flagellatus (Maas 1903) pictured below
  • Acromitus hardenbergi Stiasny 1934
  • Acromitus maculosus Light 1914 *
  • Acromitus rabanchatu Annandale 1915
  • Acromitus tankahkeei Light 1924
• Catostylus L. Agassiz 1862
  • Catostylus cruciatus (Lesson 1830)
  • Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) * pictured below
  • Catostylus ornatellus (Vanhöffen 1888)
  • Catostylus ouwensi Moestafa & McConnaughey 1966
  • Catostylus perezi Ranson 1945
  • Catostylus tagi (Haeckel 1869)
  • Catostylus townsendi Mayer 1915 pictured below
  • Catostylus tripterus (Haeckel 1880)
  • Catostylus turgescens (Schultze 1911)
  • Catostylus viridescens (Chun 1896)
• Crambione Maas 1903
  • Crambione bartschi (Mayer 1910)
  • Crambione cooki Mayer 1910
  • Crambione mastigophora Maas 1903* pictured below
• Crambionella Stiasny 1921
  • Crambionella annandalei Rao 1931
  • Crambionella orsini (Vanhöffen 1888) * pictured below
  • Crambionella stuhlmanni (Chun 1896)
• Leptobrachia Brandt 1838
  • Leptobrachia leptopus (Chamisso & Eysenhardt 1821)*
    

Acromitus flagellatus (Maas 1903)

Acromitus flagellatus (Maas 1903)

Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)

Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)

Crambione mastigophora Maas 1903

Crambione mastigophora Maas 1903

Crambione mastigophora Maas 1903

Cepheidae

Catostylus townsendi Mayer 1915

L. Agassiz 1862

• Cephea Péron & Lesueur 1810
  • Cephea cephea (Forskål 1775) pictured
  • Cephea coerulea Vanhöffen 1902
  • Cephea conifera Haeckel 1880
  • Cephea octostyla (Forskål 1775)*
  • Cephea sp. see Mayer 1915
  • Cephea sp. see Stiasny 1937
  • Cephea sp. see Kramp 1958
• Cotylorhiza L. Agassiz 1862
  • Cotylorhiza ambulacrata Haeckel 1880
  • Cotylorhiza erythraea Stiasny 1920
  • Cotylorhiza pacifica Mayer 1915
  • Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)* pictured

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

• Marivagia Galil & Gershwin 2010
  • Marivagia stellata Galil & Gershwin 2010
• Netrostoma L.S. Schultze 1898
  • Netrostoma coerulescens Maas 1903
  • Netrostoma dumokuroa (Agassiz & Mayer 1899)
  • Netrostoma nuda Gershwin & Zeidler 2008
  • Netrostoma setouchianum (Kishinouye 1902)
  • Netrostoma typhlodendrium L.S. Schultze 1898*
• Polyrhiza L. Agassiz 1862
  • Polyrhiza vesiculosa (Ehrenberg 1835)*

Lychnorhizidae

Haeckel 1880

• Anomalorhiza Light 1921
  • Anomalorhiza shawi Light 1921 *
• Lychnorhiza Haeckel 1880
  • Lychnorhiza arubae Stiasny 1920
  • Lychnorhiza lucerna Haeckel 1880 * pictured
  • Lychnorhiza malayensis Stiasny 1920
• Pseudorhiza von Lendenfeld 1882
  • Pseudorhiza aurosa von Lendenfeld 1882 *
  • Pseudorhiza haeckeli Haacke 1884

Lobonematidae

Stiasny 1921

• Lobonema Mayer 1910
  • Lobonema mayeri Light 1914
  • Lobonema smithi Mayer 1910 *
• Lobonemoides Light 1914
  • Lobonemoides gracilis Light 1914 *
  • Lobonemoides robustus Stiasny 1920
  • Lobonemoides sewelli Rao 1931

Mastigiidae

Stiasny 1921

• Mastigias L. Agassiz 1862
  • Mastigias albipunctatus Stiasny 1920
  • Mastigias andersoni Stiasny 1926
  • Mastigias gracilis (Vanhöffen 1888)
  • Mastigias ocellatus (Modeer 1791)
  • Mastigias pantherinus Haeckel 1880
  • Mastigias papua (Lesson 1830) * pictured
  • Mastigias roseus (Reynaud 1830)
  • Mastigias siderea Chun 1896
  • Mastigias sp. see Rao 1931
• Mastigietta Stiasny 1921
  • Mastigietta palmipes (Haeckel 1880) *
• Phyllorhiza L. Agassiz 1862
  • Phyllorhiza luzoni Mayer 1915
  • Phyllorhiza pacifica (Light 1921)
  • Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri Goy 1990
  • Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld 1884 * pictured
• Thysanostoma L. Agassiz 1862
  • Thysanostoma flagellatum (Haeckel 1880)
  • Thysanostoma loriferum (Ehrenberg 1835)
  • Thysanostoma thysanura Haeckel 1880 *
• Versuriga Kramp 1961
  • Versuriga anadyomene (Maas 1903) * pictured

Rhizostomatidae

Cuvier 1799

• Eupilema Haeckel 1880
  • Eupilema inexpectata Pages, Gili & Bouillon 1992
  • Eupilema scapulare Haeckel 1880 *
• Nemopilema (Kishinouye 1922)
  • Nemopilema nomurai (Kishinouye 1922) * pictured
• Rhizostoma Cuvier 1799
  • Rhizostoma luteum (Quoy & Gaimard 1827)
  • Rhizostoma octopus (Macri 1778)
  • Rhizostoma pulmo (Macri 1778)*
• Rhopilema Haeckel 1880
  • Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye 1891
  • Rhopilema hispidum (Vanhöffen 1888)
  • Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spanier & Ferguson 1990
  • Rhopilema rhopalophorum Haeckel 1880 *
  • Rhopilema verrilli (Fewkes 1887)

Stomolophidae

Haeckel 1880

• Stomolophus L. Agassiz 1862
  • Stomolophus fritillarius Haeckel 1880
  • Stomolophus meleagris L. Agassiz 1862 *

See Zoo Bank ([1]) for more information.

• Compiled by M.N Dawson, G. Jarms, A.C. Morandini. Update pending.