Coronatae

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  • Order Coronatae Vanhöffen 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.

Coronatae Species

Based largely on Kramp (1961) and Mianzan & Cornelius (1999) Collections: M = morphology; D = DNA; Type = *

Key

Family (6)

  • Genus (12)
    • Species (47)

Atollidae

Bigelow 1913

  • Atolla Haeckel 1880
    • Atolla chuni Vanhöffen 1902
    • Atolla gigantea Maas 1897
    • Atolla parva Russell 1958
    • Atolla russelli Repelin 1962
    • Atolla vanhoeffeni Russell 1957
    • Atolla wyvillei Haeckel 1880*

Atorellidae

Vanhöffen 1902

  • Atorella Vanhöffen 1902
    • Atorella arcturi Bigelow 1928
    • Atorella japonica Kawaguti & Matsuno 1981
    • Atorella octogonos Mills, Larson & Youngbluth 1987
    • Atorella subglobosa Vanhöffen 1902*
    • Atorella vanhoeffeni Bigelow 1909

Linuchidae

Haeckel 1879

  • Linantha Haechel 1880
    • Linantha lunulata Haeckel 1880*
  • Linuche Eschscholtz 1829
    • Linuche aquila Haeckel 1880 pictured
    • Linuche draco (Haeckel 1880)
    • Linuche unguiculata (Swartz 1788) *

Nausithoidae

Bigelow 1913

  • Nausithoe Kölliker 1853
    • Nausithoe albatrossi (Maas 1897)
    • Nausithoe atlantica Broch 1914
    • Nausithoe aurea Silveira & Morandini 1997 pictured
    • Nausithoe challengeri (Haeckel 1880)
    • Nausithoe clausi Vanhoffen 1892;
    • Nausithoe eumedusoides (Werner 1974) pictured
    • Nausithoe globifera Broch 1914
    • Nausithoe hagenbecki Jarms 2001
    • Nausithoe limpida Hartlaub 1909
    • Nausithoe maculataJarms 1990
    • Nausithoe marginata Kolliker 1853 pictured
    • Nausithoe picta Agassiz & Mayer 1902
    • Nausithoe planulophora (Werner 1971) pictured
    • Nausithoe punctata Kolliker 1853 * pictured
    • Nausithoe racemosa (Komai 1936) pictured
    • Nausithoe rubra Vanhöffen 1902
    • Nausithoe thieli Jarms 1990
    • Nausithoe werneri Jarms 1990
  • Palephyra Haeckel 1880
    • Palephyra antiqua Haeckel 1880*
    • Palephyra indica Vanhöffen 1902
    • Palephyra pelagica Haeckel 1880
  • Thecoscyphus Werner 1984
    • Thecoscyphus zibrowii Werner 1984* pictured

Paraphyllinidae

Maas 1903

  • Paraphyllina Maas 1903
    • Paraphyllina intermedia Maas 1903*
    • Paraphyllina ransoni Russell 1956
    • Paraphyllina rubra Neppi 1915

Periphyllidae

Haeckel 1880

  • Nauphantopsis Fewkes 1885
    • Nauphantopsis diomedeae Fewkes 1885*
  • Pericolpa Haeckel 1880
    • Pericolpa campana (Haeckel 1880)
    • Pericolpa quadrigata Haeckel 1880 *
    • Pericolpa tetrealina Haeckel 1880
  • Periphylla Haeckel 1880
    • Periphylla periphylla (Péron & Lesueur 1810) *
  • Periphyllopsis Vanhöffen 1900
    • Periphyllopsis braueri Vanhöffen 1900 *
    • Periphyllopsis galatheae Kramp 1959

References

  • Kramp, P. L. (1961). Synopsis of the Medusae of the World. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1–469. Full text
  • Mianzan H. W., Cornelius P. F. S. (1999). Cubomedusae and Scyphomedusae, p. 513–559. In: Boltovskoy D. (ed.) South Atlantic zooplankton. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Authors

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