WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Pelagia quinquecirrha Desor, 1848) Desor, E. (1848). No title. Meeting of the November 1, 1848. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3(1848 to 1851): 73–77 (Desor part pp. 75–76). page(s): 76 [details]
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
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]
additional source
Morandini AC, Marques AC. (2010). Revision of the genus <i>Chrysaora</i> Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2464: 1-97., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2010/2464.html [details]
redescription
Bayha, K. M.; Collins, A. G.; Gaffney, P. M. (2017). Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei). <em>PeerJ.</em> 5: e3863., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/3863/ [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution US Atlantic Coastal species [details]Unverified
Description Width to 25 cm. Bell surface with fine warts. Four separate mouth-arms, up to 50 cm long, with frilled edges. Bell divided into eight sections (octants); each octant with two notched, tongue-shaped lappets, three main tentacles and a minor one either side (thus five, hence the species name). Bell colour varies from transparent to bluish, pink, yellow or brown, maybe reddish streaked radially. Under-bell may be white; mouth arms pink to yellow with red speckles. Habitat: coastal. Distribution: Indo-Pacific, also Atlantic (Richmond, 1997). [details]
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US Atlantic Sea nettlesea nettleEast coast sea nettleAtlantic sea nettle |
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German |
Seenessel |
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Russian |
Хризаора пятищупальцевая |
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