Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Scyphozoa > Subclass Discomedusae > Order Semaeostomeae > Family Cyaneidae > Genus Cyanea

Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Medusa

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cyanea*	Péron & Lesueur, 1810	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Medusa capillata*	Linnaeus, 1758	objective synonym
*Cyanea arctica*	Peron & Lesueur, 1809	subjective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gele haarkwal; haarkwal; rode haarkwal; zeekwal sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;Oosterbaan, A. (2003). Strandgids: veldgids voor het Noordzeestrand [Beach guide: field guide for the North Sea coast]. EcoMare, centrum voor wadden en Noordzee: Texel, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-75318-15-4. 65 pp.;Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. ---. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium. 283 pp.

English: lion’s mane; lion’s mane jellyfish; lion's mane yellyfish sources: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Strandvondsten van Gravelines tot Nieuwpoort. Ecogids Tjiftjaf

English-United States: Lion’s Mane Jellyfish sources: Charles Hussey

French: cyanée à crinière de lion sources: Strandvondsten van Gravelines tot Nieuwpoort. Ecogids Tjiftjaf

German: gelbe Haarqualle sources: Strandvondsten van Gravelines tot Nieuwpoort. Ecogids Tjiftjaf

Polish: bełtwa włosiennik sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: röd brännmanet

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
basis of record	Cornelius, P.F.S. (2001). Cubozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 111
additional source	Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p.
additional source	Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
additional source	Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
additional source	Larson, R.J. 1976. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Cnidaria: Scyphozoa. NOAA Techical Report NMFS Circular 397. 18 p.
additional source	Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (307 publications)
Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
GenBank (20 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

WoRMS (2014). Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135301

Dr Wim Vervoort. Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=240643