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

L. Agassiz 1862

• Cassiopea (Péron & Lesueur 1810)
  

  Cassiopea andromeda (Forskål 1775)
  • andromeda (Forskål 1775; Bermuda (D); Hawaii (D, M); Florida (D), Red Sea (D)) * 
  • depressa (Haeckel 1880)
  • frondosa
  • 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)

1. purpurus (Mayer 1910)
2. stiphropterus
   

• Acromitus (Light 1914)
  

  Acromitus flagellatus (Maas 1903)
  

  Acromitus flagellatus (Maas 1903)
  

  Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)

• • flagellatus (pictured, 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
  • ornatellus
  • ouwensi
  • perezi (Ranson 1945)
  • tagi
  • townsendi (pictured, Mayer 1915; Taiwan (D))
  • tripterus (Haeckel 1880)
  • turgescens
  • viridescens
    

• Crambione
  
  • bartschi (Mayer 1910)
    
  • cooki
    
  • mastigophora (Maas 1903 *)
    

• Crambionella
  
  • annandalei
    
  • orsini
    
  • stuhlmanni
    

• Leptobrachia (Brandt 1838)
  • leptopus (Chamisso & Eysenhardt 1821)*
    

Cepheidae 

L. Agassiz 1862

• Cephea (Péron & Lesueur 1810)
  
  • cephea (Forskål 1775; Palau (D), Kwajalein (D))
  • coerulea (Vanhöffen 1902)
    
  • conifera (Haeckel 1880)
    
  • octostyla (Forskål 1775)*
    
  • sp. (Mayer 1915)
    
  • sp. (Stiasny 1937)
    
  • sp. (Kramp 1958)
    

    Catostylus townsendi Mayer 1915

• Cotylorhiza (L. Agassiz 1862)
  
  • ambulacrata (Haeckel 1880) 
  • erythraea (Stiasny 1920)
  • pacifica
  • tuberculata

• Netrostoma
  • coerulescens (Maas 1903)
  • dumokuroa
  • setouchianum
  • typhlodendrium

• Polyrhiza
  • vesiculosa (Ehrenberg 1835)*

Lychnorhizidae 

Haeckel 1880

• Anomalorhiza (Light 1921)
  • shawi (Light 1921; Philippines (D, M)) *

• Lychnorhiza
  • arubae (Stiasny 1920)
  • l'ucerna (Haeckel 1880)
  • malayensis

• Pseudorhiza
  • aurosa
  • haeckeli (Haacke 1884)

Lobonematidae

• Lobonema
  • mayeri (Light 1914)
  • smithi (Mayer 1910)*

• Lobonemoides (Light 1914)
  • gracilis
  • robustus
  • sewelli (Rao 1931)

Mastigiidae

Stiasny 1921

• Mastigias
  • albipunctatus
  • andersoni
  • gracilis (Vanhöffen 1888)
  • ocellatus
  • pantherinus (Haeckel 1880)
  • papua
  • roseus
  • siderea (Chun 1896)
  • sp. (Rao 1931)

• Mastigietta
  • palmipes

• Phyllorhiza
  • luzoni (Mayer 1915)
  • pacifica (Light 1921)
  • peronlesueuri (Goy 1990)
  • punctata (von Lendenfeld 1884)*

• Thysanostoma
  • flagellatum (Haeckel 1880)
  • loriferum
  • thysanura (Haeckel 1880; Palau (D))*

• Versuriga (Kramp 1961)
  • anadyomene (Maas 1903; Palau (D)) *

Rhizostomatidae

Cuvier 1799

• Eupilema (Haeckel 1880)
  • inexpectata (Pages Gili & Bouillon 1992)
  • scapulare (Haeckel 1880)*

• Nemopilema (Kishinouye 1922)
  • nomurai (Kishinouye 1922)*

• Rhizostoma
  • luteum (Quoy & Gaimard 1827)
  • Octopus (Macri 1778)
  • pulmo (Macri 1778)*

• Rhopilema
  • esculentum (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
  • meleagris (L. Agassiz 1862)*

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

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