Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Siphonophorae > Suborder Calycophorae > Family Prayidae > Subfamily Prayinae > Genus Lilyopsis

Lilyopsis medusa (Metschnikoff & Metschnikoff, 1871)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Praya Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lilyopsis*	Chun, 1885	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Lilyopsis rosea*	Chun, 1885	synonym
*Rosacea medusa*	(Metschnikoff & Metschnikoff, 1871)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: フタマタアイオイクラゲ

Literature

additional source	Carré, C. 1969b. Sur le genre Lilyopsis Chun 1885, avec une redescription de l'èspece Lilyopsis rosea Chun 1885 (Siphonophore, Prayinae) et une description du sa phase calyconula. Cah. Biol. Mar. 10: 71-81
additional source	Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868.
status source	Pugh, P. R. 2009. A review of the family Sphaeronectidae (class Hydrozoa, order Siphonophora), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 2147: 1-48.
ecology source	Luo, J.; Grassian, B.; Tang, D.; Irisson, J.; Greer, A.; Guigand, C.; McClatchie, S.; Cowen, R. (2014). Environmental drivers of the fine-scale distribution of a gelatinous zooplankton community across a mesoscale front. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 510: 129-149.
ecology source	Carré, C. 1969b. Sur le genre Lilyopsis Chun 1885, avec une redescription de l'èspece Lilyopsis rosea Chun 1885 (Siphonophore, Prayinae) et une description du sa phase calyconula. Cah. Biol. Mar. 10: 71-81

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Lilyopsis medusa (Metschnikoff & Metschnikoff, 1871). 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:430685