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Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor, 1848)

220476  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220476)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Desor, E. (1848). No title. Meeting of the November 1, 1848. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3(1848 to 1851): 73–77 (Desor part pp. 75–76).
page(s): 76 [details] OpenAccess publication
Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor, 1848). Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220476 on 2026-03-30
Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor, 1848). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220476 on 2026-03-30
Date
action
by
1998-09-29 06:38:21Z
created
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
changed
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
changed
2016-06-24 10:27:20Z
changed
2019-12-16 00:13:05Z
changed

original description (of ) Desor, E. (1848). No title. Meeting of the November 1, 1848. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3(1848 to 1851): 73–77 (Desor part pp. 75–76).
page(s): 76 [details] OpenAccess publication

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] 

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 Segura-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 source Morandini AC, Marques AC. (2010). Revision of the genus <i>Chrysaora</i> Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2464: 1-97., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2010/2464.html [details] 

redescription Bayha, K. M.; Collins, A. G.; Gaffney, P. M. (2017). Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei). <em>PeerJ.</em> 5: e3863., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/3863/ [details] 
 
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