''Nausithoe'' is a genus of
jellyfish
Jellyfish and sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrell ...
es belonging to the family
Nausithoidae
Nausithoidae is a family of jellyfish.
Genera
*''Nausithoe''
** '' Nausithoe albatrossi'' (Maas, 1897)
** '' Nausithoe atlantica'' (Broch, 1914)
** ''Nausithoe aurea'' Da Silveira & Morandini, 1997
** '' Nausithoe challengeri'' (Haeckel, 1880)
* ...
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The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution.
Species
There are 22 species recognized in the genus ''Nausithoe''
*''
Nausithoe phaeacum''
*''
Nausithoe albatrossi''
*''
Nausithoe albida''
*''Nausithoe atlantica''
*''Nausithoe challengeri''
*''Nausithoe clausi''
*''Nausithoe eumedusoides''
*''Nausithoe globifera''
*''Nausithoe hagenbecki''
*''Nausithoe limpida''
*''
Nausithoe maculata'' accepted as ''
Nausithoe aurea
''Nausithoe aurea'', also known as the ''Nausithoe maculata'', is a species of crown jellyfish found off the southeastern coast of Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest ...
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*''Nausithoe marginata''
*''Nausithoe picta''
*''Nausithoe planulophora''
*''
Nausithoe punctata''
*''Nausithoe racemosa''
*''Nausithoe rubra''
*''Nausithoe simplex''
*''Nausithoe sorbei''
*''Nausithoe thieli''
*''Nausithoe werneri''
Jarms, 1990
References
Scyphozoan genera
Nausithoidae
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