Species Alatina rainensis Gershwin, 2005
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Alatina rainensis Gershwin, L. 2005. Carybdea alata auct. and Manokia stiasnyi, reclassification to a new family with description of a new genus and two new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 51(2): 501-523 [510].
Type data:
Holotype QM G55286♀ (collected by J. Seymour, Dec. 2002), Raine Island, Great Barrier Reef [11°35'34"S 144°02'12"E].
Paratype(s) QM G55287♀, collected with holotype.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Raine Island.
Known only from type locality.
IMCRA
Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, marine, nectonic, pelagic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Alatina with body height at maturity small; gonads butterfly-form, attached in the central portion of the interradii only; phacellae with cirri rooted singly or in pairs.
Diagnosis References
Gershwin, L. 2005. Carybdea alata auct. and Manokia stiasnyi, reclassification to a new family with description of a new genus and two new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 51(2): 501-523 [510]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |