Chrysaora Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Morandini, André C., Da, Fábio L., Silveira & Cornelius, Paul F. S., 2006, Redescription of Chrysaora lactea Eschscholtz, 1829 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) from the Brazilian coast, with designation of a neotype, Zootaxa 1135, pp. 29-48 : 31

Genus Chrysaora Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Pelagiidae with eight rhopalia; with one, three or more tentacles between adjacent pairs of sense organs (that is, within each octant); with 16 radial gastrovascular pouches, the eight rhopalar pouches being narrower than the inter­rhopalar (tentacular) ones; with deep rhopalial pits on exumbrella; radial septa terminating near tentacle base; ephyrae with clusters of nematocysts on each side of the rhopalium ( Mayer, 1910; Kramp, 1961; Russell, 1970; Mianzan and Cornelius, 1999; Gershwin and Collins, 2002). Scyphistoma typical of Semaeostomeae , usually with 16 tentacles, four septa dividing the gastrovascular cavity, and with long calyx and short peduncle.