Cephea | |
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Cephea cephea | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Scyphozoa |
Order: | Rhizostomae |
Family: | Cepheidae |
Genus: |
Cephea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 |
Species | |
2–3 species, see text |
2–3 species, see text
Cephea is a genus of true jellyfish in the family Cepheidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific and East Atlantic. They are sometimes called crown jellyfish, but this can cause confusion with the closely related genus Netrostoma or the distantly related species in the order Coronatae.
According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus includes the following species: