Species Cassiopea andromeda (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Medusa andromeda Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [107].

Generic Combinations

• Cassiopea andromeda (Forsskål, 1775).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Reported from QLD by Stephenson et al. (1931), Stiasny (1931) and Stephenson (1962), and from the NT by Williamson et al. (1996). Indo-West Pacific

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, estuary, marine, neritic, sedentary, zooxanthellate.

Diagnosis

Cassiopea with a body 100-120 mm wide, 20-30 mm high, flat, disk-shaped; variable number of short, blunt, marginal lappets; mouth-arms wide, flat; 4-6 flat, short side branches arise from each arm in a tree-like manner; numerous small and five or more large, club-shaped vesicles on each arm between the mouths.

Diagnosis References

Kramp, P.L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469 [348]

General References

Stephenson, T.A., Stephenson, A., Tandy, G. & Spender, M. 1931. The structure and ecology of Low Isles and other reefs. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 3(2): 17-112 15 figs 27 pls

Stephenson, W. 1962. A peculiar jellyfish from Moreton Bay. Queensland Naturalist 16(5–6): 94

Stiasny, G. 1931. Die Rhizostomeen-Sammlung des British Museum (Natural History) in London. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 14: 137–178, 9 text-figs

Williamson, J., Fenner, P., Burnett, J. & Rifkin, J. (eds) 1996. Venomous and Poisonous Marine Animals: a medical and biological handbook. Sydney, Australia : NSW University Press 800 pp.

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