WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Mastigias orsini Vanhöffen, 1888) Vanhöffen, E. (1888). Untersuchungen über semäostome und rhizostome Medusen. <em>Bibliotheca Zoologica.</em> 1: 1-52. page(s): 34-35, pl. IV (figs 2-4) [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]
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): 669; note: Moved to genus Catostylus [details] 
new combination reference
Stiasny, G. (1921). Studien über Rhizostomeen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna des Malayischen Archipels nebst eine Revision des Systems. [Studies on Rhizostomes with special reference to the fauna of the Malay Archipelago and a revision of the system.]. <em>Capita Zoologica.</em> 1(2): 1-179. page(s): 129; note: Moved to genus Crambionella [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): 602-603 [details]
Unreviewed
Description Width to 20 cm. Bell slightly pointed, robust and smooth, edged with a skirt furrowed between the fused lappets. Mouth-artms tripartite with a short proximal portion, mouthlets situated on the central portion, and a prominent smooth, triangular, rounded terminal portion; no filaments. Bell varies from chocolate-coloured through yellowish-brown to milky yellow, with purple-brown blotches especially peripherally. Habitat: coastal, sometimes in estuaries. Distribution: W Indian Ocean, Arabian Gulf to India. C. stuhlmanni (Chun) and C. annandalei Rao, are conspecific (Richmond, 1997). [details]
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