Species Carukia shinju Gershwin, 2005
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Carukia shinju Gershwin, L. 2005. Two new species of jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from tropical Western Australia, presumed to cause Irukandji Syndrome. Zootaxa 1084: 1–30 [5].
Type data:
Holotype WAM WAM Z29939 ♂ (16 April 2004, caught by night-light), offshore from 80 Mile Beach, in the pearling grounds South of Broome, Kimberley coast, Western Australia [19°13.021S, 121°15.399E].
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27)
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, pelagic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Carukia with a body height of about 16mm; with branched velarial canals; with nematocyst warts on the velarial canals and perradial lappets; with long, narrow, capitate rhopaliar horns; tentacular nematocysts lacking a well-defined swelling on the shaft, with spination along the length of the shaft.
Diagnosis References
Gershwin, L. 2005. Two new species of jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from tropical Western Australia, presumed to cause Irukandji Syndrome. Zootaxa 1084: 1–30 [5]
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |