Calvadosia is a genus of stalked jellyfish in the order Stauromedusae. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Kishinouyeidae.
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| Calvadosia corbini | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Staurozoa |
| Order: | Stauromedusae |
| Suborder: | Amyostaurida |
| Family: | Kishinouyeidae Uchida, 1929 |
| Genus: | Calvadosia James-Clark, 1863 |
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Taxonomy and systematics
editThe family name is a tribute to Japanese cnidariologist Kamakichi Kishinouye. Mayer used the synonym Kishinouyea as a replacement name of Schizodiscus, for homonymy, as the name was already used to describe a lichen genus. Kishinouyea was also used by Yoshio Ôuchi to describe a praying mantis genus that he quickly renamed Kishinouyeum in 1938, and that could be a junior synonym for Phyllothelys.[1]
Species
editThe following species are recognized in the genus Calvadosia:[2]
- Calvadosia campanulata (Lamouroux, 1815)
- Calvadosia capensis (Carlgren, 1938)
- Calvadosia corbini (Larson, 1980)
- Calvadosia cruciformis (Okubo, 1917)
- Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Corbin, 1978)
- Calvadosia hawaiiensis (Edmondson, 1930)
- Calvadosia lewisi Miranda, Branch, Collins, Hirano, Marques & Griffiths, 2017
- Calvadosia tasmaniensis (Zagal, Hirano, Mills, Edgar & Barrett, 2011)
- Calvadosia tsingtaoensis (Ling, 1937)
- Calvadosia vanhoeffeni (Browne, 1910)
References
edit- Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Kramp, P. L., 1961, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 40, Page(s): 1-469
- The systematic position of the Stauromedusae. Uchida, Tohru, 1973, Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, vol. 20, Page(s): 133-139
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