dcsimg

Diagnosis

provided by World Register of Marine Species
Absence of an endodermal ocellus on the subumbrellar side of rhopalia (Scorrano et al., 2016; see remarks below). There were 10 diagnostic positions for 16S, 20 for COI, 20 for ITS1 and three for 28S

Reference

Lawley, J. W.; Gamero-Mora, E.; Maronna, M. M.; Chiaverano, L. M.; Stampar, S. N.; Hopcroft, R. R.; Collins, A. G.; Morandini, A. C. (2021). The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). PeerJ. 9: e11954.

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