WoRMS taxon details
original description
Light, S. F. (1914). Some Philippine Scyphomedusae, including two new genera, five new species, and one new variety. <em>Philippine Journal of Science.</em> 9 (section D 3): 195-231. page(s): 201-203 [details]
original description
(of Cassiopea polypoides var. culionensis Light, 1914) Light, S. F. (1914). Some Philippine Scyphomedusae, including two new genera, five new species, and one new variety. <em>Philippine Journal of Science.</em> 9 (section D 3): 195-231. page(s): 201-203 [details]
redescription
Gamero-Mora, E., Collins, A.G., Boco, S.R., Geson III, S.M., Morandini, A.C. (2022). Revealing hidden diversity among upside-down jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cassiopea): distinct evidence allows the change of status of a neglected variety and the description of a new species. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 36(1): 63-89., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/IS/IS21002 page(s): 70-77 [details] Available for editors [request]
Neotype MZUSP 8634, geounit Lapu Lapu [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Oral arms with small parabolic or orbicular appendages throughout; females with a central flattened appendage surrounded by a whorl of numerous similar appendages of different sizes often folded, and males with parabolic or only small linear appendages in the central disc; trapezoid rhopaliar pit; five marginal lappets per paramere. [details]
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