WoRMS taxon details
Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829
117506 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117506)
accepted
Species
Cytaeis herdmani Browne, 1905 · unaccepted (synonym)
Cytaeis macrogaster Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
Cytaeis nigritina Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 104, pl. 8 fig. 2 [details]
page(s): 104, pl. 8 fig. 2 [details]
Note Atlantic Ocean, south of Equator
From editor or global species database
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, south of Equator [details]
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117506 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 104, pl. 8 fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Cytaeis nigritina Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 74, pl. 6 figs 2-5 [details]
original description (of Cytaeis herdmani Browne, 1905) Browne, E. T. (1905). Report on the medusae (Hydromedusae, Scyphomedusae and Ctenophora) collected by Prof. Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. <em>In: Rep. Government of Ceylon on Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar.</em> 4: 132-166, pls 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1935982
page(s): 135, pl. 1 fig. 1, pl. 4 fig. 12 [details]
original description (of Cytaeis macrogaster Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 74, pl. 6 fig. 1 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 104, pl. 8 fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Cytaeis nigritina Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 74, pl. 6 figs 2-5 [details]
original description (of Cytaeis herdmani Browne, 1905) Browne, E. T. (1905). Report on the medusae (Hydromedusae, Scyphomedusae and Ctenophora) collected by Prof. Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. <em>In: Rep. Government of Ceylon on Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar.</em> 4: 132-166, pls 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1935982
page(s): 135, pl. 1 fig. 1, pl. 4 fig. 12 [details]
original description (of Cytaeis macrogaster Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 74, pl. 6 fig. 1 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Schuchert, P. (2007). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 114: 195-396.
page(s): 275 [details]
page(s): 275 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Schuchert P.; Collins R. (2021). Hydromedusae observed during night dives in the Gulf Stream. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 128(2): 237-356., available online at https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0049
page(s): Fig. 2A-C; note: 16s barcode [details]
page(s): Fig. 2A-C; note: 16s barcode [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Navas-Pereira, D. & Vannucci, M. (1991). The Hydromedusae and water masses of the Indian Ocean. <em>Bolm Inst. Oceanogr.</em> 39(1): 25-60. [details]
additional source Schuchert P. (1996). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Athecate hydroids and their medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 106 : 1-159., available online at https://archive.org/details/nzoimemoir01061996/mode/2up [details]
additional source Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schuchert P., Collins R. (2024). Additional observations on hydromedusae during night dives in the Gulf Stream. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 131(1): 43-120., available online at https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0113
page(s): 46, fig. 2A-G [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Navas-Pereira, D. & Vannucci, M. (1991). The Hydromedusae and water masses of the Indian Ocean. <em>Bolm Inst. Oceanogr.</em> 39(1): 25-60. [details]
additional source Schuchert P. (1996). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Athecate hydroids and their medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 106 : 1-159., available online at https://archive.org/details/nzoimemoir01061996/mode/2up [details]
additional source Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schuchert P., Collins R. (2024). Additional observations on hydromedusae during night dives in the Gulf Stream. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 131(1): 43-120., available online at https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0113
page(s): 46, fig. 2A-G [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Biology the polyp stage is unknown, perhaps Cytaeis nassa ? [details]Type locality Atlantic Ocean, south of Equator [details]
synonymy
Nigritina atlantica Steenstrup. – Kramp, 1961: 64, name not available.
Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829: 104, pl. 8 fig. 2.
? Bougainvillia mediterranea Busch, 1851: 21, pl. 2 figs, 10-11. – Haeckel, 1879: 73, synonym.
? Cytaeis pusilla Gegenbaur, 1856: 228, pl. 8 fig. 8. – Kramp, 1959a: 99, doubtful synonym.
Cytaeis macrogaster Haeckel, 1879. pl. 6 fig. 1. – Kramp, 1955a: 153, synonym.
Cytaeis nigritina Haeckel, 1879: 74, pl. 6 figs 2-5. – Maas, 1904: 8, pl. 1 figs 3-4. – Kramp, 1955a: 154, synonym.
? not Cytaeis vulgaris Agassiz & Mayer, 1899: 161, pl. 2 figs 3-5. – Mayer, 1910: 134. – Kramp, 1968: 27, perhaps valid.
Cytaeis herdmani Browne, 1905a: 135, pl. 1 fig. 1, pl. 4 fig. 12. – Browne, 1916: 177, synonym.
Cytaeis atlantica. – Mayer, 1910: 133, figs 71-72 [invalid combination].
? not Cytaeis pusilla. – Neppi & Stiasny, 1913: 23.
Cytaeis japonica Uchida, 1927: 215, fig. 39. – Kramp, 1959a: 99, synonym.
[details]
Unreviewed
Biology colonial [details]Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | オキアイタマクラゲ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Cytaeis nigritina Haeckel, 1879)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cytaeis tetrastyla)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (77 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Cytaeis nigritina Haeckel, 1879)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cytaeis tetrastyla)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (77 records)
To ITIS
