WoRMS name details
original description
Kishinouye, K. (1891). Cyanea nozakii, nov. sp. <em>Zoological magazine (Dobutsugaku zasshi).</em> 3: 93-95. [details]
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]
From other sources
Description Width to 50 cm. Distinctive, large, flat-topped bell, with eight large marginal lobes. Colour typically cream to pale yellow with darker centre and translucent margin. Below hangs a dense mass of curtain like, fragile mouth-arms, orange to reddish-brown. Inside bell rim hang eight bundles of 70-150 thin, translucent or reddish tentacles, extensile to 10 m. Habitat: coastal. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (282>. [details]
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lion's mane jellyfish |
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