''Atorella arcturi'' is a species 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 ...

in the family

Atorellidae ''Atorella'' is a genus of crown jellyfish. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Atorellidae and includes five species. Members of this family are known from the eastern coast of Africa and the western coast of Panama. Characteristics Me ...

Etymology

It was named in honor of the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition, on which the

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was found.Bigelow, H.B. (1928). Scyphomedusae from the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition. ''Zoologica'' 8: 502-505.

References

Animals described in 1928 Taxa named by Henry Bryant Bigelow Coronatae {{Scyphozoa-stub