WoRMS name details
Medusa persea Forsskål, 1775
1528451 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1528451)
unaccepted > superseded combination (synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Forsskål, P.; Niebuhr, C. (1775). Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica. Hauniæ [Copenhagen]:ex officina Mölleri.[alternative spelling Forskål is also correct]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 107, pl. 33 fig. B [details]
page(s): 107, pl. 33 fig. B [details]
Type locality contained in Mediterranean Sea
type locality contained in Mediterranean Sea [details]
Taxonomic remark A synonym of Aurelia aurita (Mediterranean form) according to Haeckel (1880: 553)
Taxonomic remark A synonym of Aurelia aurita (Mediterranean form) according to Haeckel (1880: 553) [details]
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Medusa persea Forsskål, 1775. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1528451 on 2024-06-20
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Forsskål, P.; Niebuhr, C. (1775). Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica. Hauniæ [Copenhagen]:ex officina Mölleri.[alternative spelling Forskål is also correct]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 107, pl. 33 fig. B [details]
source of synonymy 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): 553 [details]
page(s): 107, pl. 33 fig. B [details]
source of synonymy 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): 553 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark A synonym of Aurelia aurita (Mediterranean form) according to Haeckel (1880: 553) [details]
