Genus Catostylus L. Agassiz, 1862
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June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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Type species:
Cephea mosaica Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (=Catostylus mosaicus (Agassiz, 1862)) by indication (Agassiz (1862: 152) seemed to indicate C. mosaicus as the type species, and this was reiterated by Mayer (1910: 664)).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Widely distributed including Papua New Guinea; Indo-Pacific and Altantic
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Catostylidae with a broad, intracircular anastomosing network in direct communication with both rhopalar and inter-rhopalar canals and with the ring canal; moutharms without special appendages.
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 [370]
Notes
Agassiz (1862: 152) proposed the genus Catostylus for Quoy & Gaimard's (1824) medusa Cephea mosaica, and added his new species Catostylus wilkesii, which has long been regarded as identical to C. mosaicus.
Numerous other species have been added from the tropics and subtropics of the world; Kramp (1961) considered no less than eight species to be valid.
General 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
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]
History of changes
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