August Weismann originally named Turritopsis dohrnii as Dendroclava dohrnii.
Sources
- Immortal Jellyfishes, Turritopsis dohrnii (marinebio.org)
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151801 (marinespecies.org)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/7752193 (gbif.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=308579 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/11250003.2016.1203034 (tandfonline.com)
- https://db.cngb.org/data_resources/organism/308579 (db.cngb.org)
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