Aurelia LAMARCK 1816

GENUS AURELIA LAMARCK, 1816 Diagnosis: Ulmaridae with small marginal tentacles, and lappet-like structures arising from exumbrella slightly above umbrella margin. Umbrella margin divided by eight or 16 marginal clefts; four unbranched oral arms; anastomoses between a few or all of the radial canal branches. Type species: Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758).Published as part of Scorrano, Simonetta, Aglieri, Giorgio, Boero, Ferdinando, Dawson, Michael N. & Piraino, Stefano, 2017, Unmasking Aurelia species in the Mediterranean Sea: an integrative morphometric and molecular approach, pp. 243-267 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180 (5) on page 255, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12494, http://zenodo.org/record/571098