Genus Melicertum L. Agassiz, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melicerta Oken, L. 1815. Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil, Zoologie. Erste Abteilung. Jena : Schmid pp. i-xxviii, 1-842. [1815: pp. 1-841, Register; 1816: Atlas, I-IV, pls I-XVII] [iv (index), 125].
• Melicertum Oken, 1835.

  Type species:

   Medusa campanula Fabricius, 1780 by monotypy.
• Melicertella 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 [134].

  Type species:

   Melicertella panocto Haeckel, 1879 by monotypy.
• Melicertidium Browne, E.T. 1904. Hydromedusae, with a revision of the Williadae and Petasidae. (pp. 722–749, pls. LIV–LVII) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part III) pp. 699–720, pls. XLIX-LXVI.

Introduction

The genus has a complicated taxonomic history, which has not been resolved.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

History of changes