Genus Aequorea Péron & Leseur, 1810

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aequorea Peron, F. & Lesueur, C.A. 1810. Histoire de la famille des mollusques pteropodes; caracteres des dix genres qui doivent la composer. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 15: 57-69 [334 (=22)] (Two page numbers given due to two different paginations of reference).

  Type species:

   Aequorea forskalea by subsequent designation, see Mayer, A.G. 1910. Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, The Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution 735 pp., 76 pls. [reprinted by A. Asher & Co., 1977] [324].
• Mesonema Eschscholtz, 1829.
• Crematostoma Agassiz, L. 1862. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Second monograph. In five parts — Pt. I Acalephs in general. Pt. II Ctenophore. Pt. III. Discophorae. Pt. IV. Hydroidae. Pt. V. Homologies of the Radiata. Boston, London : Little Brown, Trubner Vol. IV i-viii, 380 pp. + (1-10), pls 20-35.
• Rhegmatodes Agassiz, L. 1862. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Second monograph. In five parts — Pt. I Acalephs in general. Pt. II Ctenophore. Pt. III. Discophorae. Pt. IV. Hydroidae. Pt. V. Homologies of the Radiata. Boston, London : Little Brown, Trubner Vol. IV i-viii, 380 pp. + (1-10), pls 20-35. [361].
• Polycanna Haeckel, E. 1879. Das System der Medusen. Erster Theil einer Monographie der Medusen [Craspedotae]. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 1: 1-360; Atlas 20 pls [229].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mayer, A.G. 1910. Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, The Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution 735 pp., 76 pls. [reprinted by A. Asher & Co., 1977] [324]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes