Galapagos Species Database

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Staurodiscus polynema (Kramp, 1959)

Medusa, Medusae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Hydrozoa

Order
Leptothecata

Suborder
Conica

Family
Hebellidae

Genus
Staurodiscus

Species
polynema

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Toxorchis polynema Kramp, 1959 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (T. polynema) Madagascar, Maldivia Islands, Malayo, Samoa, Africa, Galapagos Islands (Segura-Puertas, 1984).

References

  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Segura-Puertas, L. (1984) Morfología, sistemática y zoogeografía de las medusas (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa y Scyphozoa) del Pacífico Tropical Oriental= Morphology, sistematics and zoogeography of medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa) fron the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Segura-Puertas, L. (1984). Morfología, sistemática y zoogeografía de las medusas (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa y Scyphozoa) del Pacífico Tropical Oriental= Morphology, sistematics and zoogeography of medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa) fron the Eastern Tropical Pacific (Issue QL 378. S43).

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"Galapagos Species Database, Staurodiscus polynema", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19799. Accessed 31 October 2026.