Galapagos Species Database

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Clytia simplex (Browne, 1902)

Medusa, Medusae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Hydrozoa

Order
Leptothecata

Suborder
Proboscoida

Family
Campanulariidae

Genus
Clytia

Species
simplex

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Phialidium simplex Browne, 1902 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (P. simplex) Chile, Africa del Sur, Brasil, Australia, Islas Malvinas, Mexico, Peru and 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, Clytia simplex", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19801. Accessed 1 November 2026.