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Cassiopea frondosa (Pallas, 1774)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Cnidaria
class
Scyphozoa
order
Rhizostomeae
family
Cassiopeidae
genus
Cassiopea
species
Cassiopea frondosa

Name

Synonyms
Medusa frondosa Pallas, 1774
Homonyms
Cassiopea frondosa (Pallas, 1774)
Common names
Caribbean Upsidedown Jelly in English
Cassiopée fine in French
Medusa invertida del Caribe in Spanish
Upsidedown Jellyfish in English
Água-viva-de-ponta-cabeça-caribenha in Portuguese
Upsidedown Jellyfish in English

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. F.S. Cornelius and J. van der Land (eds), updates 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
  3. 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.
  4. Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre
  5. Segura-Puertas, Lourdes, Eduardo Suárez-Morales, and Laura Celis, 2003: A checklist of the Medusae (Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa and Cubozoa) of Mexico. Zootaxa, issue 194. 1-15.
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