Cassiopea spp

Cassiopea spp. Distribution See Fig. 3, Mendoza-Becerril et al. (2025). Notes This category includes records identified as Cassiopea sp., most of them being based on citizen-science photographs. Many of these image records only show the exumbrellar view or a limited oral perspective which makes it difficult to see key diagnostic features, such as the number of rhopalia or the shape and colour of the oral appendages. As Cassiopea species are mainly distinguished by oral structures (Gamero-Mora et al. 2022), it was not possible to assign them to a particular species. They may correspond to C. xamachana, C. andromeda or even C. frondosa, yet, in the absence of clearer photos or physical material, they are conservatively listed as Cassiopea spp. As these records likely represent observations of species already documented for the region, they were not included in species richness counts.