Genus Cephea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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- Cephea 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 [360].
Type species:
Medusa octostyla Forsskål, 1775 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] [651].
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Widely distributed: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Samoa, Malaysia, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Singapore, Japan, Saudi Arabia
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
With numerous (more than three) inter-rhopalar radial canals in each octant; central portion of exumbrella with warts; with long, pointed filaments on the mouth-arms.
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 [352]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |