Species Aurelia labiata (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)

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• Aurellia labiata Chamisso, A. & Eysenhardt, C.G. 1821. De animalibus quibusdam e classe Vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff duce Ottone de Kotzebue, annis 1815–1818 per acta, observatis ... Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 10(2): 345–374, pls 24–33 [358].

  Type data:

   Neotype CAS CASIZ 111024♀ (coll. by D. Wrobel, 19 April 1997, 25cm BD), Monterey Bay, California.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gershwin, L. 2001. Systematics and biogeography of the jellyfish Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 201: 104-119 [109].

  Type locality references:

  Gershwin, L. 2001. Systematics and biogeography of the jellyfish Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 201: 104-119 [109].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

All records outside eastern North Pacific are doubtful. Canada: British Columbia, United States of America: Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, estuary, marine, neritic, planktonic.

Diagnosis

Aurelia with manubrium elongated, wide, protruding below the bell margin when viewed laterally. Oral arms shorter than bell radius, attached to base of manubrium, extending outward to bell margin or bent at 90° angle typically counterclockwise. Bell margin 16-scalloped, with a primary indentation at each of 8 rhopalia and a secondary indentation midway between rhopalia. Older individuals typically with many radial canals arising from each gastro-genital sinus; in some, the outer branches are greatly anastomosed. Embryos and larvae brooded on the manubrium or on stiff, shelf-like manubrial extensions, rarely on the oral arms.

Diagnosis References

Gershwin, L. 2001. Systematics and biogeography of the jellyfish Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 201: 104-119 [109]

Notes

Reported in Australian waters by Mayer (1915), from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait.

General References

Mayer, A.G. 1915. Medusae of the Philippines and of Torres Straits. Being a report on the Scyphomedusae collected by the U.S. Fisheries Bureau steamer 'Albatross' in the Philippine Islands and Malay Archipelago, 1907–1910, and upon the medusae collected by the expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington to Torres Straits, Australia, in 1913. Papers of the Tortugas Laboratory 8: 157–202, pls 1–3

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