Galapagos Species Database
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Proboscidactyla ornata
Medusa, Medusae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hydrozoa
Order
Anthoathecata
Family
Proboscidactylidae
Genus
Proboscidactyla
Species
ornata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dicranocanna furcillata Haeckel, 1879, Dyscannota dysdipleura Haeckel, 1879, Misakia typica Uchida, 1927, Proboscidactyla conica Menon, 1932, Proboscidactyla varians Browne, 1905, Willeta ornata (McCrady, 1859), Willsia ornata McCrady, 1859 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Galapagos Islands (Segura-Puertas, 1984).
- 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, Proboscidactyla ornata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19806. Accessed 5 November 2026.