Geryonia proboscidalis
creator: van der Land, Jacob
creator: Schuchert, Peter
date: 2026-08-02
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Geryonia proboscidalis (Forsskål, 1775)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2026). World Hydrozoa Database. Geryonia proboscidalis (Forsskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117567 on 2026-08-02
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2021-12-10T09:42:28Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Geryonia proboscidalis (Forsskål, 1775)
class: Hydrozoa
family: Geryoniidae
genus: Geryonia
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp.
name published in: Péron F. & Lesueur C.A. (1810). Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris. 14: 325-366.
name published in: Haeckel, E. (1864). Die Famile der Rüsselquallen (Medusae, Geryonidae). Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medizin und Naturwissenschaften. 1: 435-461, pls 11-12.
name published in: Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates.
name published in: Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard. (1824 - 1826). Zoologie. [Zoology.]. 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. iv + 712 pp. [pp. 1-328, 1824; 329-616, 1825; 617-664, 1826].
name published in: Agassiz, A., & Mayer, A. G. 1902. Medusae. Report of the scientific research expedition to the tropical Pacific. U.S. Fish Comm. St. Albatross, 1899-1900. III. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 26: 136-176, pls 131-114.
name published in year: 1775
name published in year: 1810
name published in year: 1864
name published in year: 1879
name published in year: 1824 - 1826
name published in year: 1902
order: Limnomedusae
parent name usage ID: 117098
phylum: Cnidaria
scientific name authorship: (Forsskål, 1775)
specific epithet: proboscidalis
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted