Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence; Strait of Belle Isle and as far south as Virginia
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence; Strait of Belle Isle and as far south as Virginia [details]
Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Periphylla periphylla (Péron & Lesueur, 1810). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135294 on 2025-07-19
original description(ofPeriphylla regina 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 athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605982 page(s): 421-422 [details]
original description(ofPeriphylla mirabilis 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 athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605982 page(s): 422 [details]
original description(ofPeriphylla humilis Fewkes, 1886)Fewkes, J. W. 1886a. Report on the medusae collected by the U. S. F. C. Steamer Albatross, in the region of the Gulf Stream, in 1883-84. - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries 12: 927-980, pls 1-10., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15835306 page(s): 931-933 [details]
original description(ofMedusa hyacinthina Faber, 1829)Faber, F. (1829). Naturgeschichte der Fische Islands. Mit einem Anhange von den isländischen Medusen und Strahlthieren. [Natural history of the fishes of Iceland. With an appendix on the Icelandic jellyfish and radioducks.]. <em>Frankfurt.</em> 206pp. (Copepoda: 33, 109). page(s): 197 [details]
original description(ofPeriphylla hyacinthina Steenstrup, 1837)Steenstrup, J. (1837). Acta et Catalogus Musei Hafniensis. note: manuscript never published, but cited by some ancient researchers (see Kramp, 1947: 40) [details]
original description(ofPeriphylla hyacinthina 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 athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605982 page(s): 419; note: authority wrongly stated as Steenstrup (1837) but he never published the mansucript with the description (Kramp, 1947: 40) [details]
basis of recordCornelius, P.F.S. (2001). Cubozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 111 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online athttp://www.iobis.org/[details]
context source (Hexacorallia)Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceGosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceLarson, R.J. 1976. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Cnidaria: Scyphozoa. NOAA Techical Report NMFS Circular 397. 18 p.[details]
additional sourceShih, 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 sourceSegura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre[details]
additional sourceLiu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceCairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online athttps://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceIntegrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online athttp://www.itis.gov[details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Distribution semi-cosmopolitan [details] Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence; Strait of Belle Isle and as far south as Virginia [details] Habitat Abyssopelagic [details] Habitat in deep water [details] Habitat upper epipelagic [details] Habitat Bathypelagic [details]