Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Periphylla periphylla
Medusa, Medusae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Scyphozoa
Order
Coronatae
Family
Periphyllidae
Genus
Periphylla
Species
periphylla
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Carybdea periphylla Peron & Lesueur, 1810, Medusa hyacinthina Faber, 1829, Periphylla humilis Fewkes, 1886, Periphylla hyacinthina Steenstrup, 1837, Periphylla hyacinthina Haeckel, 1880, Periphylla mirabilis Haeckel, 1880, Periphylla regina Haeckel, 1880 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- 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, Periphylla periphylla", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19827. Accessed 4 November 2026.