Craspedacusta sowerbii

Craspedacusta sowerbii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Limnomedusae
Family: Olindiidae
Genus: Craspedacusta
Species:
C. sowerbii
Binomial name
Craspedacusta sowerbii
Lankester, 1880
Synonyms
  • Craspedacusta kawaii (Oka, 1907)
  • Craspedacusta kiatingi Gaw & Kung, 1939
  • Craspedacusta sowerbii yongkangensis Wang & Xu, 2004
  • Craspedacusta sowerbyi Lankester, 1880 [lapsus]
  • Limnocodium kawaii Oka, 1907
  • Limnocodium victoria Allman, 1880
  • Microhydra germanica Roch, 1924
  • Microhydra ryderi Potts, 1885
A specimen in a farming pond (Upstate New York).

Craspedacusta sowerbii or peach blossom jellyfish[1] is a species of freshwater hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa cnidarian. Hydromedusan jellyfish differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because they have a muscular, shelf-like structure called a velum on the ventral surface, attached to the bell margin. Originally from the Yangtze basin in China, C. sowerbii is an introduced species now found throughout the world in bodies of fresh water.[2]

  1. ^ "freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta sowerbyi) - Species Profile".
  2. ^ Didžiulis, Viktoras; Żurek, Roman. "NOBANIS - Invasive Alien Species Fact Sheet Craspedacusta sowerbii" (PDF). Retrieved 27 February 2024.