Calvadosia Explained

Calvadosia is a genus of stalked jellyfish in the order Stauromedusae. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Kishinouyeidae.

Taxonomy and systematics

The 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

The 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

• 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

Notes and References

1. http://zoologie.umh.ac.be/asef/pdf/2009_45_01%5CCompact%5CEhrmann_et_Roy_ASEF_2009_45_1_067_076_compact.pdf Taxonomy and synonymy of Phyllothelys Wood-Mason (Dictyoptera: Mantodea). Reinhard Ehrmann and Roger Roy, Ann. soc. entomol. Fr. (n.s.), 2009, 45 (1) : 67-76
2. Web site: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Calvadosia James-Clark, 1863. marinespecies.org. en. 2018-04-18.