Kishinouyea
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Kishinouyea is a stalked jellyfish
genus in the family Kishinouyeidae
. The genus name is a tribute to Japanese cnidariologist Kamakichi Kishinouye
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Kishinouye, 1902, for homonymy, as the name is already used to describe a lichen genus. Kishinouyea has been also used by Yoshio Ôuchi to describe a praying mantis genus that he quickly renamed Kishinouyeum in 1938, and that could be a junior synonym for Phyllothelys.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and refers to any free-swimming jellyfish stages in the phylum Cnidaria...
genus in the family Kishinouyeidae
Kishinouyeidae
Kishinouyeidae is a stalked jellyfish family in the order Eleutherocarpida.-References:* Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Kramp, P. L., 1961, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 40, Page: 1-469...
. The genus name is a tribute to Japanese cnidariologist Kamakichi Kishinouye
Kamakichi Kishinouye
was a Japanese fisheries biologist and cnidariologist and a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo between 1908 and 1928....
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Homonymy
Mayer used the name Kishinouyea as a replacement name of SchizodiscusSchizodiscus
Schizodiscus is a lichenized genus of fungi within the Lecideaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Schizodiscus afroalpinus.-Homonymy:...
Kishinouye, 1902, for homonymy, as the name is already used to describe a lichen genus. Kishinouyea has been also used by Yoshio Ôuchi to describe a praying mantis genus that he quickly renamed Kishinouyeum in 1938, and that could be a junior synonym for Phyllothelys.