Species Cephea fusca Péron & Lesueur, 1810

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Regional Maps

• Cephea fusca 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 [361].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kimberley & Pilbara.

Known only from type locality.

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, epipelagic, marine, neritic.

Diagnosis

Hemispheric, tubercular, brown-blackish parasol, marked of eight white lines; deeply toothed edge; eight arms arborescenses of a brown sallow, mixed of fifteen to twenty very-long and threadlike cirrhi; 40-50 cm diameter.

Diagnosis References

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 [361] (Electronically translated from French)

Notes

Originally described from de Witt's Land (Kimberley & Pilbara), Cephea fusca was considered valid by Haeckel (1880: 575) and von Lendenfeld (1884: 286), but Mayer (1910: 654) regarded it as a questionable junior synonym of C. cephea. Kramp (1961) did not treat it. Despite being treated as valid by several authors, the species has not been reported again since its original discovery.

General References

Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer.

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] [654]

Von Lendenfeld, R. 1884. Local colour varieties of Scyphomedusa: A new species produced in forty years. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Ser. 5 14: 409–412 [286]

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