WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Toxoclytus tripterus Haeckel, 1880) Haeckel, E. (1880). Das System der Acraspeden. 2te Hälfte des Systems der Medusen. Acht Nachträge zur Vervollständigung des Systems. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 2: 361-672, plates 21-40., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605982 page(s): 586 [details]
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
Jarms, G. & Morandini, A.C. (2019). World Atlas of Jellyfish. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 816p. page(s): 587 [details]
new combination reference
Mayer, A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I & II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington. pp. 735, plates 1-76., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1327020 page(s): 671; note: Moved to genus Catostylus [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Haeckel (1880) mentioned that the species resembles a young Rhizostoma. Vanhöffen (1902) wondered to which genus the species should be assigned. Later Stiasny (1921) ranked it is a doubtful species. [details]
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