''Netrostoma dumokuroa'' is a species of
true jellyfish in the family
Cepheidae. It has been found in the South
Pacific Ocean surrounding
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
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Etymology
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
, ''dumokuroa'', is derived from the native Fijian name for the species, ''dumokuro''.
[Agassiz, A. and Mayer, A. G. 1899]
Acalephs from the Fiji Islands
Bulletin of the Museum of comparative Zoölogy of Harvard College 32: 172-173, pls 11, 12, figs 36-39.
References
Taxa named by Alexander Agassiz
Animals described in 1899
Cepheidae
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