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Chirodropus gorilla Haeckel, 1880

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Haeckel, E. (1879). System der Acraspeden. volume 2nd half, pp. 672. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=420159

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Cnidaria
class
Cubozoa
order
Chirodropida
family
Chirodropidae
genus
Chirodropus
species
Chirodropus gorilla

Name

Homonyms
Chirodropus gorilla Haeckel, 1880
Common names
Gorilla Box Jelly in English
Vespa-do-mar-costeira in Portuguese
čtyřhranka gorilí in Czech

Bibliographic References

  1. Gershwin, Lisa-Ann, 2006: Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new genera and two new species. Zootaxa, issue 1231. 1-42.
  2. Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates.
  3. Haeckel, E. (1880). Das System der Acraspeden. 2te Hälfte des Systems der Medusen. Acht Nachträge zur Vervollständigung des Systems. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 2: 361-672, plates 21-40.
  4. Straehler-Pohl, I.; Ghepdeu, G. F. Y.; Chougong, D. T.; Tchoumbougnang, F.; Morandini, A. C. (2022). Ernst Haeckel's mysterious species, Part II: African Chirodropida (Cnidaria, Cubomedusae). <em>Plankton and Benthos Research.</em> 17(4): 406-429.
  5. van der Land, J. (ed). (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms.
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