Galapagos Species Database
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Sminthea eurygaster
Medusa, Medusae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hydrozoa
Order
Trachymedusae
Family
Rhopalonematidae
Genus
Sminthea
Species
eurygaster
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Marmanema mammaeforme Haeckel, 1879 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Circumglobal, 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, Sminthea eurygaster", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19811. Accessed 1 November 2026.