Rhizostomae

Taxobox


image_caption = "Stomolophus meleagris"
name = Rhizostomae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Cnidaria
classis = Scyphozoa
ordo = Rhizostomae
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = See text.

Rhizostomae or Rhizostomeae is an order of jellyfish. Species of this order have neither tentacles nor other structures at the bell's edges. Instead, they have eight highly-branched oral arms, along which there are suctorial minimouth orifices. (This is in contrast to other scyphozoans, which have four of these arms.) These oral arms become fused as they approach the central part of the jellyfish. The mouth of the animal is also subdivided into minute pores that are linked to coelenteron.

Distribution

Generally observed at low latitudes, typically in the Pacific Ocean.

Families

* Suborder: Daktyliophorae
** Catostylidae
** Lobonematidae
** Lychnorhizidae
** Rhizostomatidae
** Stomolophidae
* Suborder: Kolpophorae
** Cassiopeidae
** Cepheidae
** Mastigiidae
** Thysanostomatidae
** Versurigidae

Gallery

Unknown family

Genus "Nemopilema nomurai" (formerly "Stomolophus nomurai"), aka "Nomura's jellyfish" or "Echizen kurage"

References

* M. Omori and M. Kitamura (2004) Taxonomic review of three Japanese species of edible jellyfish (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae), "Plankton Biol. Ecol." 51(1): 36-51.