Species Chiropsoides buitendijki (Horst, 1907)
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Chiropsalmus buitendijki Horst, R. 1907. On a new cubomedusa from the Java-Sea: Chiropsalmus buitendijki. Notes from the Leyden Museum 29(2): 101–106, pl. 2 [101].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH 5234 (P. Buitendijk, 1907; 2 specimens), Reede van Batavia, Java.
Generic Combinations
- Chiropsoides buitendijki (Horst, 1907). —
Southcott, R.V. 1956. Studies on Australian cubomedusae, including a new genus and species apparently harmful to man. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(2): 254–280 [276]
Distribution
Recorded from "Australia".
Extra Distribution Information
Indonesia, Sri Lanka
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, marine, pelagic.
Diagnosis
Chiropsoides with 5–9 fingers and tentacles; with long, hollow, finger-shaped gastric saccules; with low, pyramidal diverticulae on the main shafts of the pedalial canals, singly between successive branches.
Diagnosis References
Gershwin, L. 2006. Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1231: 1-42 [19]
Notes
Etymology: Named to honour Mr. P.J. Buitendijk, who found this species and presented the specimens to the Museum
General References
Gershwin, L. 2006. Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1231: 1-42 [18] (taxonomic revision)
History of changes
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