Cyanea

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Cladus: Medusozoa
Classis: Scyphozoa
Subclassis: Discomedusae
Ordo: Semaeostomeae
Familia: Cyaneidae
Genus: Cyanea
Species: C. annasethe - C. capillata - C. lamarckii

Name

Cyanea Person & Lesueur, 1809

Cyanea is a cosmopolitan genus of stinging jellyfish, primarily found in northern waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The same genus name has been given to a genus of plants of the Hawaiian lobelioids, an example of a parahomonym (same name, different kingdom).[1]

Species

The taxonomy of Cyanea species is not fully agreed upon. Some zoologists have suggested that all species within the genus should be treated as one. However, in the North Sea at least, the lion's mane jellyfish and the blue jellyfish appear as distinct species.[2] Cyanea may be a species complex of recently diverged species.

Cyanea annasethe Haeckel 1880
Cyanea annaskala von Lendenfeld,1884
Cyanea buitendijki Stiasny, 1919
Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cyanea citrae (Kishinouye, 1910)
Cyanea ferruginea Eschscholtz, 1929
Cyanea fulva Agassiz, 1862
Cyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1809
Cyanea mjobergi Stiasny 1921
Cyanea muellerianthe Haacke, 1887
Cyanea nozakii Kishinouye, 1891
Cyanea postelsi Brandt, 1838
Cyanea purpurea Kishinouye, 1910
Cyanea rosea Quoy & Gaimard 1824

References

^ "Cyanea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
^ Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997): The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, no 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, p 508