Many-ribbed Jellies
Aequoreidae
Aequoreidae is a family of hydrozoans, sometimes called the many-ribbed jellies or many-ribbed jellyfish. There are approximately 30 known species found in temperate and tropical marine coastal environments. Aequoreids include Aequorea victoria, the organism from which the green fluorescent protein gene was isolated.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first
Crystal Jellies
genusAequorea
Rhacostoma
genusRhacostoma
Aldersladia
genusAldersladia
Zygocanna
genusZygocanna
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 171652.