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 (26)
  • Species (94) [91 morphological + 3 molecular]
    

Cassiopeidae

Cassiopea andromeda (Forskål 1775)

(L. Agassiz 1862)

• Cassiopea (Péron & Lesueur 1810) 
  • andromeda (pictured, Forskål 1775, Bermuda (D); Hawaii (D, M); Florida (D), Red Sea (D))
  • depressa (Haeckel 1880)
  • frondosa (Pallas 1774, Florida (D), Panama (D))
  • medusa (Light 1914)
  • mertensi (Brandt 1838)
  • ndrosia (Agassiz & Mayer 1899)
  • ornata (Haeckel 1880, Fiji (D), Kakaban (D, M), Palau (D, M))
  • picta (Vanhöffen 1888)
  • vanderhorsti (Stiasny 1922)
  • sp. 1 (Holland et al. 2004; Queensland (D))
  • sp. 2 (Holland et al. 2004; New Guinea (D))
  • sp. 3 (Holland et al. 2004; Hawaii (D, M), New Guinea (D))

Catostylidae

(Gegenbaur 1857)

• Acromitoides(Stiasny 1921)
  • purpurus (Mayer 1910)
  • stiphropterus (Schultze 1897)
• Acromitus (Light 1914)
  • flagellatus (pictured below, Maas 1903, Taiwan (D))
  • hardenbergi (Stiasny 1934)
  • maculosus (Light 1914)*
  • rabanchatu (Annandale 1915)
  • tankahkeei (Light 1924)
• Catostylus (L. Agassiz 1862)
  • cruciatus (Lesson 1830)
  • mosaicus (pictured below, Quoy & Gaimard 1824*, Queensland (D), New South Wales (D, M), Tasmania (D, M), Victoria (D, M))
  • ornatellus (Vanhöffen 1888)
  • ouwensi (Moestafa & McConnaughey 1966)
  • perezi (Ranson 1945)
  • tagi (Haeckel 1869)
  • townsendi (pictured below, Mayer 1915, Taiwan (D))
  • tripterus (Haeckel 1880)
  • turgescens (Schultze 1911)
  • viridescens (Chun 1896)
• Crambione (Maas 1903)
  • bartschi (Mayer 1910)
  • cooki (Mayer 1910)
  • mastigophora (pictured below, Maas 1903)*
• Crambionella (Stiasny 1921)
  • annandalei (Rao 1931)
  • orsini (pictured below, Vanhöffen 1888, Persian Gulf (D))*
  • stuhlmanni (Chun 1896)
• Leptobrachia (Brandt 1838)
  • 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 (pictured, Forskål 1775, Palau (D), Kwajalein (D))
  • coerulea (Vanhöffen 1902)
  • conifera (Haeckel 1880)
  • octostyla (Forskål 1775)*
  • sp. (Mayer 1915)
  • sp. (Stiasny 1937)
  • sp. (Kramp 1958)
• Cotylorhiza (L. Agassiz 1862)
  • ambulacrata (Haeckel 1880)
  • erythraea (Stiasny 1920)
  • pacifica (Mayer 1915)
  • tuberculata (pictured, Macri 1778)*

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri 1778)

• Netrostoma (L.S. Schultze 1898)
  • coerulescens (Maas 1903)
  • dumokuroa (Agassiz & Mayer 1899)
  • setouchianum (Kishinouye 1902)
  • typhlodendrium (L.S. Schultze 1898)*
• Polyrhiza (L. Agassiz 1862)
  • vesiculosa (Ehrenberg 1835)*

Lychnorhizidae

(Haeckel 1880)

• Anomalorhiza (Light 1921)
  • shawi (Light 1921, Philippines (D, M))*
• Lychnorhiza (Haeckel 1880)
  • arubae (Stiasny 1920)
  • lucerna (pictured, Haeckel 1880)
  • malayensis (Stiasny 1920)
• Pseudorhiza (von Lendenfeld 1882)
  • aurosa (von Lendenfeld 1882 *)
  • haeckeli (Haacke 1884)

Lobonematidae

(Stiasny 1921)

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

Mastigiidae

(Stiasny 1921)

• Mastigias (L. Agassiz 1862)
  • albipunctatus (Stiasny 1920)
  • andersoni (Stiasny 1926)
  • gracilis (Vanhöffen 1888)
  • ocellatus (Modeer 1791)
  • pantherinus (Haeckel 1880)
  • papua (pictured, Lesson 1830, Berau (D, M), Japan (D, M), Palau (D, M))*
  • roseus (Reynaud 1830)
  • siderea (Chun 1896)
  • sp. (Rao 1931)
• Mastigietta (Stiasny 1921)
  • palmipes (Haeckel 1880)*
• Phyllorhiza (L. Agassiz 1862)
  • luzoni (Mayer 1915)
  • pacifica (Light 1921)
  • peronlesueuri (Goy 1990)
  • punctata (pictured, von Lendenfeld 1884)*

• Thysanostoma (L. Agassiz 1862)
  • flagellatum (Haeckel 1880)
  • loriferum (Ehrenberg 1835)
  • thysanura (pictured, Haeckel 1880, Palau (D))*
• Versuriga (Kramp 1961)
  • anadyomene (pictured, Maas 1903, Palau (D)) *

Rhizostomatidae

(Cuvier 1799)

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

Stomolophidae

(Haeckel 1880)

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

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

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