Table of Contents
Preface
G�tz B. Reinicke, Sabine Holst, Andr� C. Morandini and Hjalmar Thiel
1. Max Egon THIEL’s monographs on Scyphozoa (Cnidaria) and a left-behind typescript on the Rhizostomeae
G�tz B. Reinicke, Sabine Holst, Andr� C. Morandini, Ilka S�tje, Ilka Straehler-Pohl, Amanda A. Wiesenthal, and Hjalmar Thiel
2. Morphology of Rhizostomeae jellyfishes: what is known and what we advanced since the 1970s
Andr� C. Morandini
3. Approaches and findings in histological and micromorphological research on Rhizostomeae
Sabine Holst, Gisele R. Tiseo, Nicolas Djeghri, and Ilka S�tje
4. Life cycles and reproduction of Rhizostomeae
Agust�n Schiariti, Sabine Holst, Gisele R. Tiseo, Hiroshi Miyake and Andr� C. Morandini
5. Physiology and functional biology of Rhizostomeae jellyfish
Renato M. Nagata, Isabella D’Ambra, Chiara Lauritano, Guilherme M. von Montfort, Nicolas Djeghri, Mayara A. Jordano, Sean P. Colin, John H. Costello, and Valentina Leoni
6. Morphological and molecular data in the study of the evolution, population genetics and taxonomy of Rhizostomeae
Edgar Gamero-Mora, Jonathan W. Lawley, Maximiliano M. Maronna, S�rgio N. Stampar,
Adriana Muhlia-Almazan, and Andr� C. Morandini
7. Ecology of Rhizostomeae
Delphine Thibault, Zafrir Kuplik, Laura Prieto, Michael Brown, Shin Uye, Tom Doyle, Kylie Pitt, William Fitt, Mark Gibbons and Angelica Enrique-Navarroc
8. Rhizostomes as a resource: The expanding exploitation of jellyfish by humans
Lucas Brotz, Dror L. Angel, Isabella D’Ambra, Ang�lica Enrique-Navarro, Chiara Lauritano, Delphine Thibault, and Laura Prieto