blue jellyfish
Cyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Cyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1810
- Name authority
- Péron & Lesueur, 1810
- Common name
- blue jellyfish
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Scyphozoa
- Order
- Semaeostomeae
- Family
- Cyaneidae
- Genus
- Cyanea
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumCnidaria
- classScyphozoa Goette, 1887
- subclassDiscomedusae Haeckel, 1880
- orderSemaeostomeae Agassiz, 1862
- familyCyaneidae L. Agassiz, 1862
- genusCyanea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
- speciesCyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Cyanea. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| lion’s maneCyanea citrea Kishinouye, 1910 | CyaneidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| lion’s maneCyanea nozakii Kishinouye, 1891 | CyaneidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| lion’s maneCyanea postelsi Brandt, 1835 | CyaneidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cyanea purpurea Kishinouye, 1910 | CyaneidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Cyanea lamarck Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Péron & Lesueur, 1810 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- 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. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:32NCL. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.