WoRMS taxon details
Aurelia limbata Brandt, 1835
158199 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158199)
accepted
Species
Aurelia (Aurelissa) limbata Brandt, 1835 · alternative representation
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. <em>Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 226 [details]
page(s): 226 [details]
Neotype MZUSP 8660, verbatimGeounit Okirai bay,...
, Type locality contained in Kamchatka Peninsula
Neotype MZUSP 8660, verbatimGeounit Okirai bay, Ofunato,... [details]
type locality contained in Kamchatka Peninsula [details]
Distribution Bay of Fundy; Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador; Gulf of St. Lawrence
Distribution Bay of Fundy; Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador; Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Aurelia limbata Brandt, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158199 on 2025-03-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. <em>Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 226 [details]
basis of record Larson, R.J. 1976. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Cnidaria: Scyphozoa. NOAA Techical Report NMFS Circular 397. 18 p. [details]
page(s): 226 [details]
basis of record Larson, R.J. 1976. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Cnidaria: Scyphozoa. NOAA Techical Report NMFS Circular 397. 18 p. [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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): 398-399 [details]
additional source Lawley, J. W.; Gamero-Mora, E.; Maronna, M. M.; Chiaverano, L. M.; Stampar, S. N.; Hopcroft, R. R.; Collins, A. G.; Morandini, A. C. (2021). The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). <em>PeerJ.</em> 9: e11954., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11954 [details]
additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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): 398-399 [details]
additional source Lawley, J. W.; Gamero-Mora, E.; Maronna, M. M.; Chiaverano, L. M.; Stampar, S. N.; Hopcroft, R. R.; Collins, A. G.; Morandini, A. C. (2021). The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). <em>PeerJ.</em> 9: e11954., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11954 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Neotype MZUSP 8660, verbatimGeounit Okirai bay, Ofunato,... [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution Bay of Fundy; Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador; Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]Habitat upper epipelagic [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Brown-banded moon jellybrownbanded moon jellybrown banded moon jelly | [details] |
| German | Braungebänderte Ohrenqualle | [details] |
| Japanese | キタミズクラゲ | [details] |
| Russian | Аурелия окаймленная | [details] |
