Description
General:
Four oral arms, each reaching greater than 1 meter in length; Bell morphology resembling a wide-brimmed hat; Young have 20 or 21 marginal sense organs and 60 marginal lappets.
Geographic Information
Habitat description:
Mesopelagic.
Additional Information
References
Encyclopedia of LifeTree of Life
World Register of Marine Species
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Matsumoto, G.I., K.A. Raskoff, and D.J. Lindsay (2003). Tiburonia granrojo n. sp., a mesopelagic scyphomedusa from the Pacific Ocean representing the type of a new subfamily (class Scyphozoa: order Semaeostomeae: family Ulmaridae: subfamily Tiburoniinae subfam. nov.). Marine Biology, 143: 73-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-003-1047-2
Citation:
Stygiomedusa gigantea
(Browne, 1910) Deep-Sea Guide (DSG) at http://dsg/mbari.org/dsg/view/concept/Stygiomedusa%20gigantea. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Consulted on 2024-04-26.