Cassiopea xamachana

Not to be confused with Cassiopea andromeda.

Cassiopea xamachana
Upside-down jellyfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Rhizostomeae
Family: Cassiopeidae
Genus: Cassiopea
Species:
C. xamachana
Binomial name
Cassiopea xamachana
Synonyms
  • Cassiopea vanderhorsti Stiasny, 1922
Group of upside-down jellyfish
A series of confocal images, showing the musculature development of Cassopeia xamachana from planuloid bud to polyp

Cassiopea xamachana, commonly known as the upside-down jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish in the family Cassiopeidae. It is found in warm parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. It was first described by the American marine biologist Henry Bryant Bigelow in 1892.

  1. ^ van der Land, Jacob (2014). "Cassiopea xamachana Bigelow, 1892". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-03-04.