''Stephanoscyphistoma'' is a genus of

crown jellyfish Crown jellyfishes are the six family (biology), families of Scyphozoa, true jellyfish that belong to the Order (biology), order Coronatae.Daly, Brugler, Cartwright, Collins, Dawson, Fautin, France, McFadden, Opresko, Rodriguez, Romano & Stake (2 ...

.Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C. (2023). World List of Scyphozoa
''Stephanoscyphistoma'' Jarms, 1990
Accessed through

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on 2023-06-06. Its taxonomic placement has been disputed, having been placed in

Hydrozoa Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; from Ancient Greek ('; "water") and ('; "animals")) is a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class (biology), class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline wat ...

Allman, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., Pres. Linn. Soc., III. ''On the Structure and Systematic Position of'' Stephanoscyphus mirabilis, ''the Type of a new Order of'' Hydrozoa, ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology'', Volume 1, Issue 1, September 1875, Pages 61–67, and

Scyphozoa The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish (or "true jellies"). The class name Scyphozoa comes from the Greek word '' skyphos'' (), denoting a kind of drinking cup and alluding to the ...

, and additionally having contained former members that were discovered to produce

medusae Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies or simply jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals, althoug ...

belonging to the genera '' Atorella'' and '' Nausithoe''.

Etymology

The genus name is derived from the

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

("crown"), ("cup"), and ("mouth"). This was given in reference to the cup-like shape of the species' bodies, and its crown of marginal tentacles.

Species

According to the

, ''Stephanoscyphistoma'' contains three species:

References

Scyphozoan genera Coronatae {{Scyphozoa-stub