African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cephea octostyla (Forskål, 1775)

AfReMaS taxon details

Cephea octostyla (Forskål, 1775)

AphiaID

213583 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213583)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cephea Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Original name

Medusa octostyla Forskål, 1775

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 106, Pl. XXIX [details]

Taxonomic citation

Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Cephea octostyla (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213583 on 2026-01-20

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cephea octostyla (Forskål, 1775). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213583 on 2026-01-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-10-30 10:47:35Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2019-12-22 20:34:56Z

changed

Morandini, André C.

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original description (of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 106, Pl. XXIX [details]

basis of record Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source F.S. Cornelius and J. van der Land (eds), updates 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Jarms, G. & Morandini, A.C. (2019). World Atlas of Jellyfish. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 816p.
page(s): 458-459 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (13 records)