Cyanea (jellyfish)

Cyanea is a genus of jellyfish, primarily found in northern waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and southern Pacific waters of Australia^[1] and New Zealand, there are also several boreal,^[2] polar, tropical and sub-tropical species. Commonly found in and associated with rivers and fjords.^[3] The same genus name has been given to a genus of plants of the Hawaiian lobelioids, an example of a parahomonym (same name, different kingdom).^[4]

Cyanea
Lion's mane jellyfish, Cyanea capillata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Scyphozoa
Order:	Semaeostomeae
Family:	Cyaneidae
Genus:	Cyanea Péron and Lesueur, 1809
Species
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Species

The taxonomy of Cyanea species has seen increased scrutiny in recent years.^[1][5][2] Early zoologists suggested that all species within the genus should be treated as one.^[6][7] Recent molecular and integrative taxonomic studies have refuted this assertion^[1][8][9] as the scyphozoan community has restored many of the previous species.^[10] For example, in the North Sea, the lion's mane jellyfish and the blue jellyfish appear as distinct species.^[11] On the East Coast of the United States there are at least two co-occurring species, C. fulva and C. versicolor.^[12] Cyanea may be a species complex of recently diverged species.

• Cyanea annasethe Haeckel, 1880
• Cyanea annaskala von Lendenfeld, 1882
• Cyanea barkeri Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010 [nomen dubium]
• Cyanea buitendijki Stiasny, 1919
• Cyanea capillata Linnaeus, 1758
• Cyanea citrea Kishinouye, 1910
• Cyanea ferruginea Eschscholtz, 1829
• Cyanea fulva Agassiz, 1862
• Cyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1810
• Cyanea mjöbergi Stiasny, 1921
• Cyanea muellerianthe Haacke, 1887
• Cyanea nozakii Kishinouye, 1891
• Cyanea postelsi Brandt, 1835
• Cyanea purpurea Kishinouye, 1910
• Cyanea rosea Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
• Cyanea tzetlinii Kolbasova & Neretina, 2015^[2]
• Cyanea versicolor Agassiz, 1862