Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Leptothecata > Family Aequoreidae

Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesonema*	Eschscholtz, 1829	synonym
*Mesonema (Mesonema)*	Brandt, 1835	synonym

Children

Aequorea conica Browne, 1905
Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Aequorea macrodactyla (Brandt, 1835)
Aequorea pensilis (Haeckel, 1879)
Aequorea vitrina Gosse, 1853

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オワンクラゲ属

Literature

original description	Péron F. & Lesueur C.A. (1810). Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris. 14: 325-366.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, 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. 112-120
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810. 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:116998