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