Genus Carybdea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Carybdea Péron, F. & Lesueur, C.A. 1810. Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 14: 325–366 [332].
Type species:
Carybdea marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Mayer, A.G. 1910. Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, The Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution 735 pp., 76 pls. [reprinted by A. Asher & Co., 1977] [506].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan in warm waters
IMCRA
Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Diagnosis
Carybdeidae with epaulette-shaped or linear phacellae, comprised of short gastric cirri; with heart-shaped rhopaliar niche ostia; with usually two, sometimes 3-4, dendritically branched velarial canals per octant; with scalpel-shaped pedalia, typically with nematocyst clusters on the outer keel.
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 [521]
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |