Periphyllidae is a family of jellyfish containing four genera and six species. The most well-known member of the family, Periphylla periphylla, is usually considered a deep-sea species, but it forms large blooms in surface waters of Norwegian fjords.
Periphyllid
FAMILY
via GBIF
via Wikidata · CC0
Periphyllidae is a family of jellyfish containing four genera and six species. The most well-known member of the family, Periphylla periphylla, is usually considered a deep-sea species, but it forms large blooms in surface waters of Norwegian fjords.
==Genera== Nauphantopsis Nauphantopsis diomedeae Fewkes, 1885 Pericolpa Pericolpa campana (Haeckel, 1880) Pericolpa quadrigata Haeckel, 1880 Periphylla Periphylla periphylla (helmet jellyfish) (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) Periphyllopsis Periphyllopsis braueri Vanhöffen, 1902 Periphyllopsis galatheae Kramp, 1959
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).