Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Scyphozoa > Subclass Discomedusae > Order Semaeostomeae > Family Ulmaridae > Subfamily Stygiomedusinae > Genus Stygiomedusa

Stygiomedusa gigantea (Browne, 1910)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stygiomedusa*	Russell, 1959	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Diplulmaris gigantea*	Browne, 1910	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ダイオウクラゲ; ダイオウクラゲ

Literature

basis of record	Cornelius, P.F.S. (2001). Cubozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 111
additional source	Moore, D. M.; Flink, A. E.; Prendergast, E.; Gilbert, A. (2023). Personal submersibles offer novel ecological research access to Antarctic waters: an example, with observations of the rarely encountered scyphozoan Stygiomedusa gigantea. Polar Research. 42.
additional source	Jarms, G. & Morandini, A.C. (2019). World Atlas of Jellyfish. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 816p.
new combination reference	Larson R.J. 1986. Pelagic Scyphomedusae (Scyphoza: Coronatae and Semeaostomae) of the Southern Ocean. In Kornicker L.S. (ed) Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XVI. Antarctic Research Series 41, 59-165.

Genbank

Citation

Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Stygiomedusa gigantea (Browne, 1910). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135311