Species Catostylus wilkesii L. Agassiz, 1862
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Epipelagic, estuary, marine, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Large, 350 mm in diameter; similar in appearance to C. mosaicus, showing the reticulation of the arms represented by Quoy & Gaimard to be small bunches of marginal lobes. Slaty coloured, rim transparent, with radiating white lines; surface of the disk crenulate, dotted near the margin.
Notes
This species was originally described based on an illustration of a specimen from Lake Illiwara (near Sydney).
Haeckel (1880: 622) and von Lendenfeld (1884d: 299) regarded this species as a junior synonym of C. mosaicus (as Crambessa mosaica). It has not been dsicussed in the scientific literature since.
General References
Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [622]
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 [299]
History of changes
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