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Stygiomedusa gigantea (Browne, 1910)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Larson, R. J. (1986). Pelagic Scyphomedusae (Scyphoza: Coronatae and Semeaostomae) of the Southern Ocean. In Kornicker L.S. (ed) Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XVI. Antarctic Research Series 41, 59-165. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=167171

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Cnidaria
class
Scyphozoa
order
Semaeostomeae
family
Ulmaridae
genus
Stygiomedusa
species
Stygiomedusa gigantea

Name

Synonyms
Diplulmaris gigantea Browne, 1910
Stygiomedusa fabulosa Russell, 1959
Stygiomedusa stauchi Repelin, 1967
Homonyms
Stygiomedusa gigantea (Browne, 1910)
Common names
Giant Phantom Jelly in English
Medusa fantasma gigante in Italian
Medusa gigante antartica in Italian
talířovka bájná in Czech
ダイオウクラゲ in Japanese
ダイオウクラゲ in Japanese
ダイオウクラゲ in Japanese
ダイオウクラゲ in Japanese
ダイオウクラゲ in Japanese
ダイオウクラゲ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,..., 2002: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115.
  2. Cornelius, P.F.S. (2001). Cubozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 111
  3. Jarms, G. & Morandini, A.C. (2019). World Atlas of Jellyfish. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 816p.
  4. Larson R.J. 1986. Pelagic Scyphomedusae (Scyphoza: Coronatae and Semeaostomae) of the Southern Ocean. In Kornicker L.S. (ed) Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XVI. Antarctic Research Series 41, 59-165.
  5. Moore, D. M.; Flink, A. E.; Prendergast, E.; Gilbert, A. (2023). Personal submersibles offer novel ecological research access to Antarctic waters: an example, with observations of the rarely encountered scyphozoan Stygiomedusa gigantea. <em>Polar Research.</em> 42. 10.33265/polar.v42.8873
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