''Atorella subglobosa'' 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 ...

. The species was collected from marine waters near

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

during the

Siboga expedition The Siboga expedition was a Dutch zoological and hydrographic expedition to Indonesia from March 1899 to February 1900. The leader of the expedition was Max Carl Wilhelm Weber. Other members of the crew were his wife Anna Weber-Van Bosse, Anna ...

and described by

Ernst Vanhöffen Ernst Vanhöffen (15 November 1858, in Wehlau – 14 June 1918) was a German zoologist. Biography He was born on 15 November 1858, in Wehlau. He studied geology, botany and zoology at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg, graduating in ...

in 1902.Maas, O. (1903). Die scyphomedusen der Siboga-expedition (Vol. 6, No. 3). Buchhandlung und druckerei vormals EJ Brill.

References

Coronatae Animals described in 1902 Fauna of Indonesia {{Scyphozoa-stub