Genus Cestum Lesueur, 1813

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cestum Lesueur, C.A. 1813. Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'animaux mollusques et radiares receueilles dans la Méditerranée près de Nice. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris 3: 281-285, 1 pl. [282].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Warmer oceans of the world.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Diagnosis

The narrow, aboral edge of the animal is arched and the 4 subtentacular meridional canals extend upward from their points of origin and are provided each with a very short tract of cilia. They then bend downwards and finally outwards along the middle of the sides to the ends of the body, where they join the 4 meridional subventral canals.

 

Diagnosis References

Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [43]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)