Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Scyphozoa
Ordo: Rhizostomeae
Familia: Rhizostomatidae
Genus: Stomolophus
Species: S. fritillaris - S. meleagris
Name
Stomolophus L. Agassiz, 1862
References
Stomolophus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Stomolophus is a genus of true jellyfish from the West Atlantic and Pacific.[1] It is the only genus in the monotypic family Stomolophidae. Formerly, Nomura's jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai) was also included in this genus, but has now been reclassified to the family Rhizostomatidae.[2]
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species, Stomolophus includes two species:[3]
Stomolophus fritillarius
Stomolophus meleagris - the cannonball or cabbagehead jellyfish
References
"Stopmolophidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
Omori; and Kitamura (2004). Taxonomic review of three Japanese species of edible jellyfish (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae). Plankton Biol. Ecol. 51(1): 36–51.
"Stomolophus". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
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