Cyaneidae
Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758)
This is a description of the lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), covering its appearance, size, behavior, and full life cycle.
Cyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Cyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Cyanea lamarckii, the blue jellyfish, is a small plankton-eating jellyfish found in pelagic waters around the British Isles and nearby northern Europe.
Cyanea nozakii Kishinouye, 1891
Cyanea nozakii Kishinouye, 1891
Cyanea nozakii is a jellyfish found off China and Japan, with increasingly common harmful blooms linked to ecosystem degradation.
Cyanea annaskala von Lendenfeld, 1882
Cyanea annaskala von Lendenfeld, 1882
Cyanea annaskala is a endemic lion's mane jellyfish from southeastern Australia that forms stinging blooms.
Cyanea barkeri Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010
Cyanea barkeri Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010
Cyanea barkeri is a species of true jellyfish from the Cyaneidae family found off Australia’s coast.
Cyanea ferruginea Eschscholtz, 1829
Cyanea ferruginea Eschscholtz, 1829
Cyanea ferruginea, the Pacific lion mane jellyfish, is a smaller relative of the common lion's mane jellyfish found in the northern Pacific.
Cyanea fulva Agassiz, 1862
Cyanea fulva Agassiz, 1862
Cyanea fulva is a scyphozoan jellyfish common in shallow mid-Atlantic US waters, with a moderately painful sting to humans.
Cyanea versicolor Agassiz, 1862
Cyanea versicolor Agassiz, 1862
Cyanea versicolor is a small pink jellyfish, a well-marked local race of Cyanea capillata found off the southeastern US coast.
Desmonema gaudichaudi (Lesson, 1830)
Desmonema gaudichaudi (Lesson, 1830)
Desmonema gaudichaudi is a common New Zealand jellyfish that also has uncommon vagrants in Australian waters.
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