Cifozoários do Brasil / Brazilian Scyphozoa

(always under construction)

Cubozoa

    Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830)

    Chiropsalmus quadrumanus (F. Müller, 1859)

    Tamoya haplonema F. Müller, 1859

    Tripedalia cystophora Conant, 1897

Staurozoa

    Kishinouyea corbini Larson, 1980

    Lucernariopsis capensis Carlgren, 1938

Scyphozoa Coronatae

    Atolla wyvillei Haeckel, 1880

    Atorella sp.

    Linuche unguiculata (Swartz, 1788)

    Nausithoe aurea Silveira & Morandini, 1997

    Nausithoe punctata Kölliker, 1853

    Nausithoe sp.

    Periphylla periphylla (Péron & Lesueur, 1810)

    Stephanoscyphistoma corniformis (Komai, 1936)

    Stephanoscyphistoma simplex (Kirkipatrick, 1890)

Scyphozoa "Semaeostomeae"

    Aurelia sp.

    Chrysaora lactea Eschscholtz, 1829

    Drymonema gorgo Müller, 1881

    Pelagia noctiluca (Forskål, 1775)

Scyphozoa Rhizostomeae

    Cassiopea xamachana Bigelow, 1892

    Lychnorhiza lucerna Haeckel, 1880

    Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884

    Stomolophus meleagris L. Agassiz, 1862

Mostly based after:

    Silveira, F.L. da & Cornelius, P.F.S. (2000) Novas observações sobre medusas (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae) no nordeste e sul do Brasil. Acta Biologica Leopoldensia, 22, 9-18.

    Migotto, A.E., Marques, A.C., Morandini, A.C. & Silveira, F.L. da (2002) Checklist of the Cnidaria Medusozoa of Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 2, 1-30.

    Morandini, A.C., Ascher, D., Stampar, S.N. & Ferreira, J.F.V. (2005) Cubozoa e Scyphozoa (Cnidaria: Medusozoa) de águas costeiras do Brasil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia, 95, 281-294.

Important references on Scyphozoa

    Brandt, J.F., 1835. Prodomus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum. Fasc. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 1834, 201-275. PDF available

    Calder, D.R., 2009. Cubozoan and Scyphozoan jellyfishes of the Carolinian biogeographic province, southeastern USA. Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science, 3, 1-58.

    Eschscholtz, F., 1829. System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller Medusenartigen Strahlthiere. Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler. PDF available

    Haeckel, E., 1880. Das System der Medusen. I, 2: System der Acraspeden. Jena: Gustav Fischer. PDF available

    Kramp, P.L., 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 40, 7-469. PDF available

    Larson, R.J., 1986. Pelagic Scyphomedusae (Scyphozoa: Coronatae and Semaeostomeae) of the Southern Ocean. Antartic Research Series, 41, 59-165.

    Mayer, A.G., 1910. The medusae of the world. Volume III. The Scyphomedusae. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 109, III, 499-735. PDF available

    Mianzan, H.W. & Cornelius, P.F.S., 1999. Cubomedusae and Scyphomedusae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton, vol. 1 (ed. D. Boltovskoy), pp. 513-559. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.

    Russell, F.S., 1970. The medusae of the British Isles II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a supplement to the first volume on hydromedusae. London: Cambridge University Press. PDF available

    Stiasny, G., 1921. Studien über Rhizostomeen mit besonderer berücksichtigung der Fauna des Malaiischen Archipels nebsteiner revision des Systems. Capita Zoologica, 1(2), 1-179.

    Thiel, M.E., 1977. Bibliographie. In Dr. H.G. Bronns. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Zweiter Band: Spongiaria, Coelenterata, Echinodermata, II. Abteilung: Coelenterata, 2 buch Scyphomedusae, 8. Lieferung, pp. 1-104. Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag.

    Vanhöffen, E., 1888. Untersuchungen über semäostome und rhizostome Medusen. Bibliotheca Zoologica, 1(3), 5-52. PDF available