Pelagia (genus)

Pelagia

Pelagia noctiluca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Scyphozoa
Order:	Semaeostomeae
Family:	Pelagiidae
Genus:	Pelagia Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Pelagia is a genus of jellyfishes in the family Pelagiidae.

Species

According to WoRMS:^[1]

Pelagia flaveola Eschscholtz, 1829 (nomen dubium)
Pelagia noctiluca (Forsskål, 1775) - Mediterranean Purplestriped jelly
Pelagia panopyra Péron & Lesueur (nomen dubium)

According to ITIS:^[2]

Pelagia colorata Russell, 1964
Pelagia noctiluca (Forskål, 1775)
Pelagia panopyra Péron & Lesueur, 1809
Pelagia perla Haeckel, 1880 (synonym of Pelagia noctiluca in WoRMS)

References

R.S.K. Barnes, P. Calow and P.J.W Olive 1993, The Invertebrates (second edition) Blackwell Science

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