Medusa noctiluca Forsskål, 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
- Semaeostomeae
- family
- Pelagiidae
- genus
- Pelagia
- species
- Pelagia noctiluca
Name
- Homonyms
- Medusa noctiluca Forsskål, 1775
Bibliographic References
- 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.
- 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.