Species Cyanea rosea Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Cyanea with a strongly pink colouration throughout; with a dark cross visible from the top; with sparsely arranged tentacles.
Diagnosis References
Notes
The species was transferred to the genus Stenoptycha by L. Agassiz (1862: 162); valid as Stenoptycha by Haeckel (1880: 525); von Lendenfeld (1884d: 272); and Whitelegge (1889: 196); Dakin & Colefax (1933: 210). However, Mayer (1910: 595) and subsequent authors have regarded Stenoptycha as a synonym of Cyanea.
Mayer (1910: 601) considered C. rosea to be possibly the young of C. annaskala; Kramp (1961: 335) regarded it as doubtful.
General References
Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [525]
Kramp, P.L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469 [335]
Mayer, A.G. 1910. Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, The Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution 735 pp., 76 pls. [reprinted by A. Asher & Co., 1977] [601]
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |