Aequorea

Aequorea
Aequorea victoria (the "crystal jelly") with two amphipods
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hydrozoa
Order:	Leptothecata
Family:	Aequoreidae
Genus:	Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Crystal Jelly (Aequorea sp) swimming

Aequorea is a genus of pelagic hydrozoans in the family Aequoreidae. ^[1]

Species

The genus contains the following species:

• Aequorea africana Millard, 1966
• Aequorea albida L. Agassiz, 1862
• Aequorea atrikeelis Lin, Xu, Huang & Wang, 2009
• Aequorea australis Uchida, 1947
• Aequorea coerulescens (Brandt, 1838)
• Aequorea conica Browne, 1905
• Aequorea cyanea de Blainville, 1834
• Aequorea floridana Agassiz, 1862
• Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
• Aequorea globosa Eschscholtz, 1829
• Aequorea krampi Bouillon, 1984
• Aequorea kurangai Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010
• Aequorea macrodactyla Brandt, 1835
• Aequorea minima Bouillon, 1985
• Aequorea nanhainensis Xu, Huang & Du, 2009
• Aequorea papillata Huang & Xu, 1994
• Aequorea parva Browne, 1905
• Aequorea pensilis Haeckel, 1879
• Aequorea phillipensis Watson, 1998
• Aequorea taiwanensis Zheng, Lin, Li, Cao, Xu & Huang, 2009
• Aequorea tenuis Agassiz, 1862
• Aequorea tetranema Xu, Huang & Du, 2009
• Aequorea victoria Murbach & Shearer, 1902
• Aequorea vitrina Gosse, 1853

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2013-08-08.