WoRMS taxon detailsCatostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
 220491 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220491)
accepted
Species
Catostylus mosaicus mosaicus Dawson, 2005 · uncertain
Catostylus Wilkesii Agassiz, 1862 · unaccepted (synonym)
Cephea mosaica Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish,
recent only
(of Cephea mosaica Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard. (1824-1826). Zoologie. <em>In: L. de Freycinet (ed.), Voyage au tour du monde fait par ordre du roi, sur les corvettes de S. M: l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817 à 1820.</em> iv + 712 pp. [pp. 1-328, 1824; 329-616, 1825; 617-664, 1826]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40871044
page(s): 569, pl. 85 (fig. 3) [details]
Type locality contained in Sydney
type locality contained in Sydney [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Description Width to 35 cm. Bell sub-hemispherical, firm to floppy, finely granular and translucent. Mouth-arms neatly conical without...
Description Width to 35 cm. Bell sub-hemispherical, firm to floppy, finely granular and translucent. Mouth-arms neatly conical without clubs or filaments. Generally uniformly greyish-white or delicate blue-green, also reported as bright blue or reddish. Habitat: coastal, often in estuaies. Distribution: W Indian Ocean to W Pacific Ocean, Australia (Richmond, 1997). [details]
Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220491 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Catostylus Wilkesii Agassiz, 1862) Agassiz, L. (1862). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. <em>Little Brown, Boston.</em> 4: 1-380, pls 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16068829 page(s): 152; note: COPIED FROM AGASSIZ: "Large, new species, fourteen inches in diameter, drawn by Mr. J. Drayton during the U.S. Exploring Expedition. It has a general resemblance to C. mosaicus, and the figur... COPIED FROM AGASSIZ: "Large, new species, fourteen inches in diameter, drawn by Mr. J. Drayton during the U.S. Exploring Expedition. It has a general resemblance to C. mosaicus, and the figure before me shows the reticulation of the arms represented by Quoy and Gaimard, to be small bunches of marginal lobes. Slaty colored, rim transparent, with radiating white lines;- surface of the disk crenulate, dotted near the margin.- Illiware Lake ( J. Drayton)."
original description (of Cephea mosaica Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard. (1824-1826). Zoologie. <em>In: L. de Freycinet (ed.), Voyage au tour du monde fait par ordre du roi, sur les corvettes de S. M: l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817 à 1820.</em> iv + 712 pp. [pp. 1-328, 1824; 329-616, 1825; 617-664, 1826]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40871044 page(s): 569, pl. 85 (fig. 3) [details] original description (of Catostylus mosaicus mosaicus Dawson, 2005) Dawson, M. N. (2005). Morphologic and molecular redescription of <em>Catostylus mosaicus conservativus</em> (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Catostylidae) from south-east Australia. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 85(3): 723-731., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540501163x page(s): 725-727 [details] Available for editors  [request]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] new combination reference Agassiz, L. (1862). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. <em>Little Brown, Boston.</em> 4: 1-380, pls 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16068829 page(s): 152; note: Moved to genus Catostylus [details] new combination reference 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): 622; note: Moved to genus Crambessa [details] Otheradditional source
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): 572-576 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Width to 35 cm. Bell sub-hemispherical, firm to floppy, finely granular and translucent. Mouth-arms neatly conical without clubs or filaments. Generally uniformly greyish-white or delicate blue-green, also reported as bright blue or reddish. Habitat: coastal, often in estuaies. Distribution: W Indian Ocean to W Pacific Ocean, Australia (Richmond, 1997). [details]
To Barcode of Life (71 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Catostylus mosaicus) To GenBank (4508 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Cephea mosaica Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) To GenBank (4508 nucleotides; 84 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (4 records) To ITIS From editor or global species database
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