Species Atolla wyvillei Haeckel, 1880

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Regional Maps

• Atolla wyvillei Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [488].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (original material from the Challenger Expedition included three specimens taken from the Southern Ocean between the Kerguelen Islands and Melbourne), locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Reported in southern Australian waters by Stiasny (1931b) and Southcott (1982), and by Kramp & Blanner (1972) off northern NSW. It has further been taken from waters off southeastern Tasmania, the Great Australian Bight, and north of Dampier (Gershwin, unpublished notes). "Cosmopolitan in the deep waters of the oceans", according to Kramp & Blanner (1972: 163).

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, marine, mesopelagic, planktonic.

Diagnosis

Atolla with large umbrella (up to 10cm in diameter). Tentacles usually 22. Radial septa divergent centripetally, extending beyond margin of coronal muscle. Mature gonads auriform in 4 adjoining pairs. Pedalia without papillae.

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. [83]

General References

Kramp, P.L. & Blanner, P. 1972. Atollidae in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen. Steenstrupia 2: 157–165 [163] (distribution)

Southcott, R.V. 1982. Jellyfishes (Classes Scyphozoa and Hydrozoa). pp. 115–159 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp. (distribution)

Stiasny, G. 1931. Über einige coelenterata von Australien. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 14(1–2): 27–42, 1 text-fig (distribution)

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