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Stomolophus meleagris Agassiz, 1862 
AphiaID: 291140

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Discomedusae (Subclass) > Rhizostomeae (Order) > Daktyliophorae (Suborder) > Stomolophidae (Family) > Stomolophus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Stomolophus
Sources  basis of record: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English cannonball jelly  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North Pacific [details]
South Atlantic [details]
West North Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Stomolophus meleagris
Stomolophus meleagris
added on 2008-12-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291140
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Stomolophus meleagris Agassiz, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291140 on 2013-06-19
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