WoRMS source details
Mayer, A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I & II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington. pp. 735, plates 1-76.
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Descriptors: Blackfordia manhattensis, Blackfordia virginica, Dicodonium jeffersoni, Dinema jeffersoni, Dipleurosoma ochraceum, Hydractinia americana, Proboscidactyla brooksi, Willsia brooksi, Sarsia hargitti, Staurodiscus brooksi, Staurodiscus brooksi, Dipleurosoma brooksi, Toxorchis kellneri, Wuvula ochracea, Dipleurosoma ochracea
Systematics, Taxonomy
Zoogeography, Biogeography (generalities), Geographic distribution
Zoogeography, Biogeography (generalities), Geographic distribution
Aeginodorus Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Cunissa Haeckel, 1879 (source of synonymy)
Aeginura incisa Mayer, 1910 accepted as Aeginura grimaldii Maas, 1904 (original description)
Aequorea albida A. Agassiz, 1862 (redescription)
Aequorea ciliata Eschscholtz, 1829 (status source)
Aglantha Haeckel, 1879 (additional source)
Aglantha elongata (Lesson, 1843) (basis of record)
Blackfordia Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Blackfordia manhattensis Mayer, 1910 accepted as Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Bougainvillia niobe Mayer, 1894 (additional source)
Calycopsidi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Bythotiaridae Maas, 1905 (original description)
Catostylus cruciatus (Lesson, 1830) (new combination reference)
Catostylus ornatellus (Vanhöffen, 1888) (new combination reference)
Catostylus purpurus Mayer, 1910 accepted as Acromitoides purpurus (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Catostylus tagi (Haeckel, 1869) (new combination reference)
Catostylus tripterus (Haeckel, 1880) (new combination reference)
Catostylus turgescens (Schultze, 1898) (new combination reference)
Catostylus viridescens (Chun, 1896) (new combination reference)
Circe invertens Allman, 1874 accepted as Aglantha elongata (Lesson, 1843) (source of synonymy)
Cladocanna polyclada Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Staurodiscus thalassinus (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (source of synonymy)
Crambione cooki Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Crambionella orsini (Vanhöffen, 1888) (new combination reference)
Crambionella stuhlmanni (Chun, 1896) (new combination reference)
Cremastoma flava A. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (source of synonymy)
Cunina campanulata Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Cunina lativentris Gegenbaur, 1857 accepted as Cunina globosa Eschscholtz, 1829 (status source)
Cytaeis atlantica (Steenstrup, 1837) accepted as Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829 (basis of record)
Dicodonium floridana Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Dicranocanna furcillata Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Willsia ornata McCrady, 1859 accepted as Proboscidactyla ornata (McCrady, 1859) (source of synonymy)
Dipleurosoma amphithectum Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Dipleurosoma typica Boeck, 1868 accepted as Dipleurosoma typicum Boeck, 1868 (status source)
Dipleurosoma brooksii Mayer, 1910 accepted as Staurodiscus brooksii (Mayer, 1910) accepted as Staurodiscus kellneri (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Dipleurosoma ochraceum Mayer, 1910 accepted as Wuvula ochracea (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Dipurena cervicata McCrady, 1859 accepted as Slabberia strangulata (McCrady, 1859) (source of synonymy)
Dipurena conica A. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Slabberia strangulata (McCrady, 1859) (source of synonymy)
Dipurena picta Mayer, 1900 accepted as Slabberia halterata Forbes, 1846 (source of synonymy)
Discomedusa philippina Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Dissonema saphenella Haeckel, 1879 (additional source)
Eucheilota bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883) accepted as Lovenella bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883) (basis of record)
Euphysa tetrabrachia Bigelow, 1904 (source of synonymy)
Geryonia proboscidalis (Forsskål, 1775) (redescription)
Gonionemus pelagicus Bigelow, 1904 accepted as Scolionema suvaense (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899) (source of synonymy)
Kishinouyea Mayer, 1910 accepted as Calvadosia James-Clark, 1863 (original description)
Laodicea cruciata (Forsskål, 1775) accepted as Laodicea undulata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1853) (redescription)
Linerges mercurius Haeckel, 1880 accepted as Linuche unguiculata (Swartz, 1788) (source of synonymy)
Linvillea Mayer, 1910 accepted as Sphaerocoryne Pictet, 1893 (original description)
Linvillea agassizii (McCrady, 1859) accepted as Sphaerocoryne agassizii (McCrady, 1859) (basis of record)
Liriope (Liriopella) cerasus Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Liriope cerasus Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Liriope tetraphylla (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) (source of synonymy)
Lobonema Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Lobonema smithii Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Lychnorhiza bartschi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Crambione bartschi (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Margelopsidae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Margelopsinae Mayer, 1910 accepted as Margelopsidae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Mesonema abbreviata (Eschscholtz, 1829) accepted as Mesonema abbreviatum Eschscholtz, 1829 (status source)
Netocertoides brachiatum Mayer, 1900 (redescription)
Nigritina Steenstrup, 1837 accepted as Cytaeis Eschscholtz, 1829 (basis of record)
Niobia dendrotentacula Mayer, 1900 (redescription)
Octorchidium tetranema Haeckel, 1879 (status source)
Pandea maasi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Euphysa flammea (Hartlaub, 1902) (original description)
Pegantha rubiginosa (Kölliker, 1853) (redescription)
Persa dissogonima Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Persa incolorata McCrady, 1859 (source of synonymy)
Persa lucerna Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Persa incolorata McCrady, 1859 (source of synonymy)
Phialidium brunescens (Bigelow, 1904) accepted as Clytia brunescens (Bigelow, 1904) (basis of record)
Phialidium gelatinosum (Mayer, 1900) accepted as Clytia gelatinosa (Mayer, 1900) (new combination reference)
Phialidium mccradyi (Brooks, 1888) accepted as Clytia mccradyi (Brooks, 1888) (redescription)
Podocoryne carnea var. americana Mayer, 1910 accepted as Podocoryna americana (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Podocoryne fulgurans (A. Agassiz, 1865) accepted as Lizzia blondina Forbes, 1848 (basis of record)
Ptychogastridae Mayer, 1910 accepted as Ptychogastriidae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Rathkea octopunctata var. grata (A. Agassiz, 1862) accepted as Rathkea octopunctata (M. Sars, 1835) (basis of record)
Sarsia hargitti Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Schizodiscus Kishinouye, 1902 accepted as Kishinouyea Mayer, 1910 accepted as Calvadosia James-Clark, 1863 (basis of record)
Slabberia strangulata var. fragilis Mayer, 1900 accepted as Slabberia strangulata (McCrady, 1859) (basis of record)
Solmoneta Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Pegantha Haeckel, 1879 (source of synonymy)
Solmundella bitentaculata var. mediterranea (Müller, 1851) accepted as Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (basis of record)
Solmundus glacialis Grönberg, 1898 accepted as Aeginopsis laurentii Brandt, 1838 (source of synonymy)
Sthenoniinae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Stomobrachium tentaculata L. Agassiz, 1862 (additional source)
Stomotoca dinema (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) accepted as Amphinema dinema (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (basis of record)
Stomotoca octaedra (Haeckel, 1879) accepted as Codonorchis octaedrus Haeckel, 1879 (additional source)
Tamoya prismatica Haeckel, 1880 accepted as Tamoya haplonema F. Müller, 1859 (source of synonymy)
Tiara pileata var. superba Mayer, 1900 accepted as Cirrhitiara superba (Mayer, 1900) (basis of record)
Tima formosa L. Agassiz, 1862 (redescription)
Toxorchis kellneri Mayer, 1910 accepted as Staurodiscus kellneri (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Turris pileata (Forsskål, 1775) accepted as Neoturris pileata (Forsskål, 1775) (basis of record)
Versura maasi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903) (original description)
Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903) (new combination reference)
Willia brooksi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Proboscidactyla brooksi (Mayer, 1910) accepted as Proboscidactyla stellata (Forbes, 1846) (original description)
Zygocanna diploconus (Haeckel, 1879) accepted as Zygocanna undulosa (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (source of synonymy)
Zygocannula diploconus Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Zygocanna undulosa (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (source of synonymy)
Aeginura incisa Mayer, 1910 accepted as Aeginura grimaldii Maas, 1904 (original description)
Aequorea albida A. Agassiz, 1862 (redescription)
Aequorea ciliata Eschscholtz, 1829 (status source)
Aglantha Haeckel, 1879 (additional source)
Aglantha elongata (Lesson, 1843) (basis of record)
Blackfordia Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Blackfordia manhattensis Mayer, 1910 accepted as Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Bougainvillia niobe Mayer, 1894 (additional source)
Calycopsidi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Bythotiaridae Maas, 1905 (original description)
Catostylus cruciatus (Lesson, 1830) (new combination reference)
Catostylus ornatellus (Vanhöffen, 1888) (new combination reference)
Catostylus purpurus Mayer, 1910 accepted as Acromitoides purpurus (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Catostylus tagi (Haeckel, 1869) (new combination reference)
Catostylus tripterus (Haeckel, 1880) (new combination reference)
Catostylus turgescens (Schultze, 1898) (new combination reference)
Catostylus viridescens (Chun, 1896) (new combination reference)
Circe invertens Allman, 1874 accepted as Aglantha elongata (Lesson, 1843) (source of synonymy)
Cladocanna polyclada Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Staurodiscus thalassinus (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (source of synonymy)
Crambione cooki Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Crambionella orsini (Vanhöffen, 1888) (new combination reference)
Crambionella stuhlmanni (Chun, 1896) (new combination reference)
Cremastoma flava A. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (source of synonymy)
Cunina campanulata Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Cunina lativentris Gegenbaur, 1857 accepted as Cunina globosa Eschscholtz, 1829 (status source)
Cytaeis atlantica (Steenstrup, 1837) accepted as Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829 (basis of record)
Dicodonium floridana Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Dicranocanna furcillata Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Willsia ornata McCrady, 1859 accepted as Proboscidactyla ornata (McCrady, 1859) (source of synonymy)
Dipleurosoma amphithectum Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Dipleurosoma typica Boeck, 1868 accepted as Dipleurosoma typicum Boeck, 1868 (status source)
Dipleurosoma brooksii Mayer, 1910 accepted as Staurodiscus brooksii (Mayer, 1910) accepted as Staurodiscus kellneri (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Dipleurosoma ochraceum Mayer, 1910 accepted as Wuvula ochracea (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Dipurena cervicata McCrady, 1859 accepted as Slabberia strangulata (McCrady, 1859) (source of synonymy)
Dipurena conica A. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Slabberia strangulata (McCrady, 1859) (source of synonymy)
Dipurena picta Mayer, 1900 accepted as Slabberia halterata Forbes, 1846 (source of synonymy)
Discomedusa philippina Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Dissonema saphenella Haeckel, 1879 (additional source)
Eucheilota bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883) accepted as Lovenella bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883) (basis of record)
Euphysa tetrabrachia Bigelow, 1904 (source of synonymy)
Geryonia proboscidalis (Forsskål, 1775) (redescription)
Gonionemus pelagicus Bigelow, 1904 accepted as Scolionema suvaense (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899) (source of synonymy)
Kishinouyea Mayer, 1910 accepted as Calvadosia James-Clark, 1863 (original description)
Laodicea cruciata (Forsskål, 1775) accepted as Laodicea undulata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1853) (redescription)
Linerges mercurius Haeckel, 1880 accepted as Linuche unguiculata (Swartz, 1788) (source of synonymy)
Linvillea Mayer, 1910 accepted as Sphaerocoryne Pictet, 1893 (original description)
Linvillea agassizii (McCrady, 1859) accepted as Sphaerocoryne agassizii (McCrady, 1859) (basis of record)
Liriope (Liriopella) cerasus Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Liriope cerasus Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Liriope tetraphylla (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) (source of synonymy)
Lobonema Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Lobonema smithii Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Lychnorhiza bartschi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Crambione bartschi (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Margelopsidae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Margelopsinae Mayer, 1910 accepted as Margelopsidae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Mesonema abbreviata (Eschscholtz, 1829) accepted as Mesonema abbreviatum Eschscholtz, 1829 (status source)
Netocertoides brachiatum Mayer, 1900 (redescription)
Nigritina Steenstrup, 1837 accepted as Cytaeis Eschscholtz, 1829 (basis of record)
Niobia dendrotentacula Mayer, 1900 (redescription)
Octorchidium tetranema Haeckel, 1879 (status source)
Pandea maasi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Euphysa flammea (Hartlaub, 1902) (original description)
Pegantha rubiginosa (Kölliker, 1853) (redescription)
Persa dissogonima Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Persa incolorata McCrady, 1859 (source of synonymy)
Persa lucerna Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Persa incolorata McCrady, 1859 (source of synonymy)
Phialidium brunescens (Bigelow, 1904) accepted as Clytia brunescens (Bigelow, 1904) (basis of record)
Phialidium gelatinosum (Mayer, 1900) accepted as Clytia gelatinosa (Mayer, 1900) (new combination reference)
Phialidium mccradyi (Brooks, 1888) accepted as Clytia mccradyi (Brooks, 1888) (redescription)
Podocoryne carnea var. americana Mayer, 1910 accepted as Podocoryna americana (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Podocoryne fulgurans (A. Agassiz, 1865) accepted as Lizzia blondina Forbes, 1848 (basis of record)
Ptychogastridae Mayer, 1910 accepted as Ptychogastriidae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Rathkea octopunctata var. grata (A. Agassiz, 1862) accepted as Rathkea octopunctata (M. Sars, 1835) (basis of record)
Sarsia hargitti Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Schizodiscus Kishinouye, 1902 accepted as Kishinouyea Mayer, 1910 accepted as Calvadosia James-Clark, 1863 (basis of record)
Slabberia strangulata var. fragilis Mayer, 1900 accepted as Slabberia strangulata (McCrady, 1859) (basis of record)
Solmoneta Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Pegantha Haeckel, 1879 (source of synonymy)
Solmundella bitentaculata var. mediterranea (Müller, 1851) accepted as Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (basis of record)
Solmundus glacialis Grönberg, 1898 accepted as Aeginopsis laurentii Brandt, 1838 (source of synonymy)
Sthenoniinae Mayer, 1910 (original description)
Stomobrachium tentaculata L. Agassiz, 1862 (additional source)
Stomotoca dinema (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) accepted as Amphinema dinema (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (basis of record)
Stomotoca octaedra (Haeckel, 1879) accepted as Codonorchis octaedrus Haeckel, 1879 (additional source)
Tamoya prismatica Haeckel, 1880 accepted as Tamoya haplonema F. Müller, 1859 (source of synonymy)
Tiara pileata var. superba Mayer, 1900 accepted as Cirrhitiara superba (Mayer, 1900) (basis of record)
Tima formosa L. Agassiz, 1862 (redescription)
Toxorchis kellneri Mayer, 1910 accepted as Staurodiscus kellneri (Mayer, 1910) (original description)
Turris pileata (Forsskål, 1775) accepted as Neoturris pileata (Forsskål, 1775) (basis of record)
Versura maasi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903) (original description)
Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903) (new combination reference)
Willia brooksi Mayer, 1910 accepted as Proboscidactyla brooksi (Mayer, 1910) accepted as Proboscidactyla stellata (Forbes, 1846) (original description)
Zygocanna diploconus (Haeckel, 1879) accepted as Zygocanna undulosa (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (source of synonymy)
Zygocannula diploconus Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Zygocanna undulosa (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (source of synonymy)
Cooktown for Crambione cooki Mayer, 1910
Dry Tortugas for Eucheilota bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883)
Jolo Bay for Lychnorhiza bartschi Mayer, 1910
Manila Bay for Catostylus purpurus Mayer, 1910
Manila Bay for Lobonema smithii Mayer, 1910
New Jersey for Blackfordia manhattensis Mayer, 1910
Virginian for Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910
Dry Tortugas for Eucheilota bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883)
Jolo Bay for Lychnorhiza bartschi Mayer, 1910
Manila Bay for Catostylus purpurus Mayer, 1910
Manila Bay for Lobonema smithii Mayer, 1910
New Jersey for Blackfordia manhattensis Mayer, 1910
Virginian for Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910
Holotype USNM 27942, geounit Jolo Bay, identified as Lychnorhiza bartschi Mayer, 1910
Holotype USNM 27980, geounit Manila Bay, identified as Catostylus purpurus Mayer, 1910
Holotype USNM 27980, geounit Manila Bay, identified as Catostylus purpurus Mayer, 1910
Nomenclature
Haeckel's Nausicaa phaeacum from Corfu, Mediterranean, may be identical with N. punctata, but the 8 gonads tend to ... [details]
Status
juvenile medusa, not identifiable (Mayer, 1910: 325) [details]
Status
Likely conspecific with Corymorpha bigelowi (Maas, 1905) [details]
Status
Perhaps conspecific with Halopsis, although usually placed in Aequoridae [details]
Status
Perhaps conspecific with Stomobrachium lenticulare or Halopsis ocellata [details]
Status
juvenile medusa, not identifiable (Mayer, 1910: 325) [details]
Taxonomic remark
From Mayer, 1910: 665 "Haeckel's Crambessa is equivalent to the genera Catostylus, Toxoclytus, and Rhacopilus of L. ... [details]
Type locality
Taiwan Strait, 23.575°N 119.009°E. [details]
Validity
: perhaps conspecific with A. forskalea [details]
