Calvadosia

Calvadosia
Calvadosia corbini
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Staurozoa
Order:	Stauromedusae
Suborder:	Amyostaurida
Family:	Kishinouyeidae Uchida, 1929
Genus:	Calvadosia James-Clark, 1863
Synonyms
Kishinouyea Mayer, 1910 Lucernariopsis Uchida, 1929 Sasakiella Okubo, 1917 Schizodiscus Kishinouye, 1902

Calvadosia is a genus of stalked jellyfish in the order Stauromedusae. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Kishinouyeidae.

Taxonomy and systematics

The family name is a tribute to Japanese cnidariologist Kamakichi Kishinouye. Mayer used the synonym Kishinouyea as a replacement name of Schizodiscus, for homonymy, as the name was already used to describe a lichen genus. Kishinouyea was also used by Yoshio Ôuchi to describe a praying mantis genus that he quickly renamed Kishinouyeum in 1938, and that could be a junior synonym for Phyllothelys.

Species

The following species are recognized in the genus Calvadosia:

• Calvadosia campanulata (Lamouroux, 1815)
• Calvadosia capensis (Carlgren, 1938)
• Calvadosia corbini (Larson, 1980)
• Calvadosia cruciformis (Okubo, 1917)
• Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Corbin, 1978)
• Calvadosia hawaiiensis (Edmondson, 1930)
• Calvadosia lewisi Miranda, Branch, Collins, Hirano, Marques & Griffiths, 2017
• Calvadosia tasmaniensis (Zagal, Hirano, Mills, Edgar & Barrett, 2011)
• Calvadosia tsingtaoensis (Ling, 1937)
• Calvadosia vanhoeffeni (Browne, 1910)

References

• Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Kramp, P. L., 1961, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 40, Page(s): 1-469
• The systematic position of the Stauromedusae. Uchida, Tohru, 1973, Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, vol. 20, Page(s): 133-139