Genus Cyanea Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyanea Péron, F. & Lesueur, C.A. 1810. Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 14: 325–366 [363].

  Type species:

   Medusa capillata Linnaeus, 1758 (=Cyanea capillata (Eschscholtz, 1829)) 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] [595].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Diagnosis

Cyaneidae with radial and circular muscles on subumbrella; with eight adradial groups of marginal tentacles arranged in more than one row; with eight marginal sense organs.

 

ID Keys

A good comparative table of diagnostic characters for several species was given by Condon (1997).

 

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. [104]

 

General References

Condon, R. 1997. A review of the Lion's Mane jellyfishes, genus Cyanea (Scyphozoa: Cyaneidae), of Australian coastal waters. Melbourne : Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne 50 pp.

Stiasny, G. & van der Maaden, H. 1943. Über Scyphomedusen aus dem Ochotskischen und Kamtschatka Meer nebst einer Kritik der Genera Cyanea und Desmonema. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 76(3): 227-266

 

History of changes

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