| Southern moon jelly | |
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| Aurelia marginalis stranded in South Padre Island, Texas | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Scyphozoa |
| Order: | Semaeostomeae |
| Family: | Ulmaridae |
| Genus: | Aurelia |
| Species: | A. marginalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aurelia marginalis (Agassiz, 1862)
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Aurelia marginalis (commonly called the southern moon jelly) is a species of the genus Aurelia.[1][2] All species in the genus are very similar, and it is difficult to identify Aurelia medusae without genetic sampling.[3]
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Aurelia marginalis Agassiz, 1862". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ Calder, D. R. (2009). "Cubozoan and Scyphozoan jellyfishes of the Carolinian biogeographic province, southeastern USA". Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science. 3: 35–37.
- ^ 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. doi:10.7717/peerj.11954. PMC 8435205. PMID 34589293.