WoRMS taxon details
Cephea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Diplopilus Agassiz, 1862 · unaccepted (synonym)
Perirhiza Kishinouye, 1902 · unaccepted (synonym)
Stylorhiza Haeckel, 1880 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Cephea cephea (Forskål, 1775)
- Species Cephea coerulea Vanhöffen, 1902
- Species Cephea conifera Haeckel, 1880
- Species Cephea octostyla (Forskål, 1775)
- Species Cephea cyclophora Péron & Lesueur, 1810 accepted as Cephea octostyla (Forskål, 1775) (synonym)
- Species Cephea dumokuroa Agassiz & Mayer, 1899 accepted as Netrostoma dumokuroa (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899) (synonym)
- Species Cephea forskalea Haeckel, 1880 accepted as Cephea cephea (Forskål, 1775) (synonym)
- Species Cephea mosaica Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 accepted as Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (synonym)
- Species Cephea papua Lesson, 1830 accepted as Mastigias papua (Lesson, 1830) (synonym)
- Species Cephea polychroma Péron & Lesueur, 1810 accepted as Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri, 1778) (synonym)
- Species Cephea rhizostomoidea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 accepted as Cephea cephea (Forskål, 1775) (synonym)
- Species Cephea vesiculosa Ehrenberg, 1837 accepted as Polyrhiza vesiculosa (Ehrenberg, 1837) (synonym)
- Species Cephea diplopilus Haeckel (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Cephea fusca Pèron & Lesueur (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Péron F. & Lesueur C.A. (1810). Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. <em>Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris.</em> 14: 325-366., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3498981
page(s): 360 [details]
page(s): 360 [details]
Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Cephea Péron & Lesueur, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206918 on 2025-03-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Péron F. & Lesueur C.A. (1810). Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. <em>Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris.</em> 14: 325-366., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3498981
page(s): 360 [details]
original description (of Perirhiza Kishinouye, 1902) Kishinouye, K. (1902). Some new scyphomedusae of Japan. <em>Journal of the College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University.</em> 17: 1-17.
page(s): 13-14 [details]
original description (of Diplopilus Agassiz, 1862) Agassiz, L. (1862). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. <em>Little Brown, Boston.</em> 4: 1-380, pls 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16068829 [details]
original description (of Stylorhiza Haeckel, 1880) Haeckel, E. (1880). Das System der Acraspeden. 2te Hälfte des Systems der Medusen. Acht Nachträge zur Vervollständigung des Systems. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 2: 361-672, plates 21-40., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605982 [details]
basis of record Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 360 [details]
original description (of Perirhiza Kishinouye, 1902) Kishinouye, K. (1902). Some new scyphomedusae of Japan. <em>Journal of the College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University.</em> 17: 1-17.
page(s): 13-14 [details]
original description (of Diplopilus Agassiz, 1862) Agassiz, L. (1862). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. <em>Little Brown, Boston.</em> 4: 1-380, pls 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16068829 [details]
original description (of Stylorhiza Haeckel, 1880) Haeckel, E. (1880). Das System der Acraspeden. 2te Hälfte des Systems der Medusen. Acht Nachträge zur Vervollständigung des Systems. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 2: 361-672, plates 21-40., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605982 [details]
basis of record Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Jarms, G. & Morandini, A.C. (2019). World Atlas of Jellyfish. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 816p.
page(s): 450 [details]
additional source Jarms, G. & Morandini, A.C. (2019). World Atlas of Jellyfish. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 816p.
page(s): 450 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Remark Only one species in the genus according to Richmond (1997) [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | イボクラゲ属 | [details] |
