Genus Beroe Browne, 1756

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Genus Beroe Browne, 1756

Beroe Browne, P. 1756. The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. London : Patrick Browne, M.D. [384].
Idya Fréminville 1809. Title. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 1(20): 329 [329].
Cydalisia Lesson, M. (ed.) 1838. 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. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. ii Pt 2 Div. 1. [Date published 31/12/1838].
Medea Eschscholtz, F. 1829. System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Berlin : F. Dummlert. [38].
Pandora Eschscholtz, F. 1829. System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Berlin : F. Dummlert. [39] [preoccupied for Mollusca by Chemnitz, 1795].
Secondary source:
Rapp, W.F. 1945. The generic name Pandora. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 12: 499-500 [499].
Idyopsis Agassiz, L. 1860. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. III. Pt. I. Acalephs in general. Pt. II. Ctenophoroe. Boston : Little Brown. [288].
Rangia Agassiz, L. 1860. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. III. Pt. I. Acalephs in general. Pt. II. Ctenophoroe. Boston : Little Brown. [191] [named in memory of the distinguished author of important contributions to the natural history of the Ctenophorae].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Krumbach, T. 1925. Ctenophora. pp. 905-995 in Kukenthal, W. & Krumbach, T. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Berlin : W. de Gruyter Vol. 1. [908]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast, SE coastal
- Northern Territory
- Queensland: Central E coast, SE oceanic
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia: Central W coast

Diagnosis

Beroidae with the body miter-shaped, egg-shaped, or conical; with the posterior end of the body smoothly rounded, not extended into lobes; with the polar-plate surrounding the sense-organ at the aboral pole is fringed with a row of branched papillae; with the canal system of the two sides of the body separated and not in communication.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Dec-2015	CTENOPHORA Eschscholtz, 1829	09-Oct-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Lisa Gershwin
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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