''Atolla vanhoeffeni'' is a species of

true jellyfish 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 ...

in the family

Atollidae ''Atolla'' is a genus of crown jellyfish in the order Coronatae. The genus ''Atolla'' was originally proposed by Haeckel in 1880 and elevated to the monotypic family level, as Atollidae by Henry Bigelow in 1913. The six known species inhabit t ...

Etymology

The genus name, ''Atolla'', is derived from the word

atoll An atoll () is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim. Atolls are located in warm tropical or subtropical parts of the oceans and seas where corals can develop. Most ...

. The

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

was given in honor of Ernst Vanhöffen.Russell, F.S. (1957)
On a new species of scyphomedusa, Atolla vanhöffeni n.sp.
''Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom'', 36: 275-279.

References

Animals described in 1957 Atollidae {{Scyphozoa-stub