Species Cassiopea ornata Haeckel, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cassiopea ornata Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [570].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MGH, Australia.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cassiopea ornata was originally found in Palau, New Guinea, and northern Australia, and has since been reported from a few places throughout the tropical and subtropical Pacific. The species was considered valid by von Lendenfeld (1884: 285) in his catalogue of Australian medusae, but has not been reported in Australian waters since; Palau, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, estuary, marine, sedentary, zooxanthellate.

Diagnosis

100-200mm wide, flat; five lappets in each octant, blunt, indistinctly separated; mouth-arms cylindrical, slender, somewhat longer than bell radius, not broad and flat as in C. andromeda; only small, club-shaped vesicles 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 [351]

General References

Von Lendenfeld, R. 1884. The scyphomedusae of the southern hemisphere. Part III. - Conclusion. IV. Ordo - Discomedusae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 259–306 [285]

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