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Periphyllidae

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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.

Species

Periphyllid

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumCnidaria
  3. ClassScyphozoa
  4. OrderCoronatae
  5. FamilyPeriphyllidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded3,050

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
15
Family
Periphyllidae
Collections
NMV, QM, AM, WAM
Recorded in
Australia, Antarctica

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Encyclopedic overview

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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Periphyllidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.