Genus Aurelia Lamarck, 1816

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Regional Maps

• Aurelia Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : Verdière. [512] [originally proposed by Péron & Lesueur, 1810: 357 as Aurellia; conserved as Aurelia Lamarck, 1816 by Rees (1957)].

  Type species:

   Medusa aurita Linnaeus, 1758 (=Aurelia aurita (Lamarck, 1816)) by designation under Plenary Powers, see Rees, W.J. 1957. Proposed validation under the plenary powers of the generic name 'Aurelia' Lamarck 1816 (class Scyphozoa). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 13(1957–1958): 26–28; support on pp. 103, 153, 199 [26] (Validated by Rees, 1957.).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Diagnosis

Ulmariidae with umbrella margin divided by eight or sixteen marginal clefts; with small marginal tentacles and lappet-like structures arising from exumbrella slightly above umbrella margin; with four unbranched oral arms; with simple and branched radial canals with little or much anastomosing; with ring canal; with subgenital pits.

ID Keys

A key to the eastern North Pacific forms of Aurelia was given by Gershwin (2001: 115).

Diagnosis References

Russell, F.S. 1970. Medusae of the British Isles. II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a Supplement to the First Volume on Hydromedusae. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 284 pp. [139]

General References

Gershwin, L. 2001. Systematics and biogeography of the jellyfish Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 201: 104-119

Russell, F.S. 1970. Medusae of the British Isles. II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a Supplement to the First Volume on Hydromedusae. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 284 pp. [139]

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