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Aurelia Lamarck, 1816

Aurelia
Aurelia

135263  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135263)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Medusozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Scyphozoa (Class)
  6. Discomedusae (Subclass)
  7. Semaeostomeae (Order)
  8. Ulmaridae (Family)
  9. Aureliinae (Subfamily)
  10. Aurelia (Genus)
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  1. Species Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758)
  2. Species Aurelia ayla Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  3. Species Aurelia cebimarensis Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  4. Species Aurelia clausa Lesson, 1830
  5. Species Aurelia coerulea von Lendenfeld, 1884
  6. Species Aurelia colpota Brandt, 1835
  7. Species Aurelia columbia Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  8. Species Aurelia dubia Vanhöffen, 1888
  9. Species Aurelia hyalina Brandt, 1835
  10. Species Aurelia insularia Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  11. Species Aurelia labiata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821
  12. Species Aurelia limbata Brandt, 1835
  13. Species Aurelia malayensis Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  14. Species Aurelia maldivensis Bigelow, 1904
  15. Species Aurelia marginalis Agassiz, 1862
  16. Species Aurelia mianzani Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  17. Species Aurelia miyakei Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  18. Species Aurelia montyi Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  19. Species Aurelia mozambica Brown & Gibbons, 2021
  20. Species Aurelia persea (Forsskål, 1775)
  21. Species Aurelia profunda Frolova, Mammone & Miglietta, 2025
  22. Species Aurelia pseudosolida Garić & Batistić, 2022
  23. Species Aurelia rara Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  24. Species Aurelia relicta Scorrano, Aglieri, Boero, Dawson & Piraino, 2016
  25. Species Aurelia smithsoniana Lawley, Gamero-Mora, Maronna, Chiaverano, Stampar, Hopcroft, Collins & Morandini, 2021
  26. Species Aurelia solida Browne, 1905
  27. Species Aurelia vitiana Agassiz & Mayer, 1899
  28. Subgenus Aurelia (Aurelissa) Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain > unassessed)
    1. Species Aurelia (Aurelissa) clausa Lesson, 1830 represented as Aurelia clausa Lesson, 1830
    2. Species Aurelia (Aurelissa) labiata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 represented as Aurelia labiata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821
    3. Species Aurelia (Aurelissa) limbata Brandt, 1835 represented as Aurelia limbata Brandt, 1835
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698
page(s): 512 [details] OpenAccess publication
Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Aurelia Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135263 on 2025-09-13
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Aurelia Lamarck, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135263 on 2025-09-13
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Cornelius, Paul
2019-12-16 00:13:05Z
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Morandini, André C.

original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698
page(s): 512 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Cornelius, P.F.S. (2001). Cubozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 111 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Lawley, J. W.; Gamero-Mora, E.; Maronna, M. M.; Chiaverano, L. M.; Stampar, S. N.; Hopcroft, R. R.; Collins, A. G.; Morandini, A. C. (2021). The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). <em>PeerJ.</em> 9: e11954., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11954 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aurelia) 
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