Coronatae
Order Coronatae Vanhoffen 1892
Characteristics of the Order (from Kramp 1961)
Scyphomedusae with the umbrella margin cleft into lappets; with a single mouth opening provided with simple lips; with sense organs (rhopalia) and solid marginal tentacles arising from clefts between the lappets; with a circular, coronal furrow in the exumbrella, and peripheral to this a zone of gelatinous thickenings (pedalia) divided by radiating clefts alternating in position with the tentacles and rhopalia.
Based largely on Kramp (1961) and Mianzan & Cornelius (1999) Collections: M = morphology; D = DNA; Type = *
Key:
Family (2)
- Genus (14)
- Species (33)
Family (6) | Genus (12) | Species (47) | align="left" | Collections |- | Atollidae Bigelow 1913 | Atolla Haeckel 1880 | chuni Vanhoffen 1902 |- | | | gigantea Mass 1897 |- | | | parva Russell 1958 |- | | | russelli Repelin 1962 |- | | | vanhoeffeni Russell 1957 |- | | | wyvillei Haeckel 1880 * |- | Atorellidae Vanhoffen 1902 | Atorella Vanhoffen 1902 | arcturi Bigelow 1928 |- | | | japonica Kawaguti & Matsuno 1981 |- | | | octogonos Mills, Larson & Youngbluth 1987 |- | | | subglobosa Vanhoffen 1902 |- | | | vanhoeffeni Bigelow 1909 |- | Linuchidae Haechel 1879 | Linantha Haechel 1880 | lunulata Haeckel 1880 * |- | | Linuche Eschscholtz 1829
| aquila Haeckel 1880
|- | | | draco (Haeckel 1880) |- | | | unguiculata (Swartz 1788)* | align="left" | Palau (D, M) |- | Nausithoidae Bigelow 1913 | Nausithoe Kolliker 1853 | albatrossi (Maas 1897) |- | | | atlantica Broch 1914 |- | |
| aurea Silveira & Morandini 1997
|- | | | challengeri (Haeckel 1880) |- | | | clausi Vanhoffen 1892 |- | |
| eumedusoides (Werner 1974)
|- | | | globifera Broch 1914 |- | | | hagenbecki Jarms 2001 |- | | | limpida Hartlaub 1909 |- | | | maculata Jarms 1990 |- | |
| marginata Kolliker 1853
|- | | | picta Agassiz & Mayer 1902 |- | |
| planulophora (Werner 1971)
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| punctata Kolliker 1853 *
| align="left" | Palau (D, M) |- | |
| racemosa (Komai 1936)
| align="left" | New Guinea (D, M; Palau (D, M) |- | | | rubra Vanhoffen 1902 |- | | | thieli Jarms 1990 |- | | Palephyra Haeckel 1880 | antiqua Haeckel 1880* |- | | | indica Vanhoffen 1902 |- | | | pelagica (Haeckel 1880) |- | | Thecoscyphus Werner 1984
| zibrowii Werner 1984*
|- | Paraphyllinidae Maas 1903 | Paraphyllina Maas 1903 | intermedia Maas 1903* |- | | | ransoni Russell 1956 |- | | | rubra Neppi 1915 |- | Periphyllidae Haeckel | Nauphantopsis Fewkes 1885 | diomedeae Fewkes 1885* |- | | Pericolpa Haeckel 1880 | campana (Haeckel 1880) |- | | | quadrigata Haeckel 1880* |- | | | tetrealina Haeckel 1880 |- | | Periphylla Haeckel 1880 | periphylla (Peron & Lesueur 1810*) | align="left" | Malvinas (D); Norway (D) |- | | Periphyllopsis Vanhoffen 1900 | braueri Vanhoffen 1900* |- | | | galatheae Kramp 1959 |}
Compiled by M.N. Dawson, G. Jarms, and A. C. Morandini.
