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Cephea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 
AphiaID: 206918

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Discomedusae (Subclass) > Rhizostomeae (Order) > Kolpophorae (Suborder) > Cepheidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Genus
Parent Cepheidae Agassiz, 1862
Sources  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: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Cephea cephea (Forskal)
Species Cephea coerulea Vanhöffen, 1902

Species Cephea octostyla (nomen dubium)

Species Cephea conifera Haeckel, 1880 accepted as Cephea cephea (Forskal)
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Remark: Only one species in the genus according to Richmond (1997) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206918
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2000-07-18 13:43:04Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-07 06:51:43Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Cephea Péron & Lesueur, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206918 on 2013-05-22
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