Medusa cephea Forskål, 1775

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Forsskål, P.; Niebuhr, C. (1775). Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica. Hauniæ [Copenhagen]:ex officina Mölleri.[alternative spelling Forskål is also correct].

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Cnidaria

class

Scyphozoa

order

Rhizostomeae

family

Cepheidae

genus

Cephea

species

Cephea cephea

Name

Homonyms

Medusa cephea Forskål, 1775

Bibliographic References

1. Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp.
2. Kramp, P. L., 1961: Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 40. 1-469.