Species Desmonema gaudichaudi (Lesson, 1829)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chrysaora gaudichaudi Lesson, R.P. 1829. Zoophytes. In, Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 … par M.L.I. Duperey .... Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. T. II, Pt. II(2eme Div.) 155 pp., 16 pls. [114].

Generic Combinations

• Desmonema gauchaudi (Agassiz, 1862).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Subantarctic Islands (Kerguélen Island); New Zealand; Argentina (Tierra del Fuego, Falkland Islands)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, marine, neritic, planktonic.

Diagnosis

Tentacles: filiform, thickened, 10-60 per group in medusae greater than 25 cm in bell diameter.

Diagnosis References

Larson, R.J. 1986. Pelagic scyphomedusae (Scyphozoa: Coronatae and Semaeostomeae) of the Southern Ocean. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XVI, Antarctic Research Series, Vol. 41. 59-165 pp. [101]

Notes

Reported in Australia by Southcott & Glover, 1987 (near Adelaide). This report is erroneous; the specimens are a new species of Desmonema awaiting formal description.

Desmonema gaudichaudii was considered by Larson (1986) to be identical to the later named D. chierchianum, thus having nomenclatural priority.

General References

Larson, R.J. 1986. Pelagic scyphomedusae (Scyphozoa: Coronatae and Semaeostomeae) of the Southern Ocean. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XVI, Antarctic Research Series, Vol. 41. 59-165 pp. [101]

Southcott, R.V. & Glover, C.J.M. 1987. The occurrence of Desmonema gaudichaudi (Lesson) (Scyphozoa, Semaeostomeae) in South Australian waters with records of fish-jellyfish symbioses. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 111(1–2): 131–132

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