Species Cestum veneris Lesueur, 1813

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cestum veneris 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].
• Cestum amphitrites Mertens, H. 1833. Beobachtungen und untersuchungen über die beroeartigen akalephen. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 6 2: 479-544, pls 1-13 [492] [junior subjective synonym of Cestum veneris Lesueur, 1813].
• Cestus pectenalis Bigelow, H.B. 1904. Medusae from the Maldive Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 39: 245-269 [267] [junior subjective synonym of Cestum veneris Lesueur, 1813].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [44] (Cestum veneris of the Mediterranean and tropical Atlantic, and "Cestum amphitrites" of Mertens appears to be the same species from the tropical Pacific)

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Warm oceans of the world. Reported in Australia by Karen Gowlett-Holmes (unpublished notes).

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic, planktovore.

 

Diagnosis

as for genus

 

Common Name References

Harbison, G.R., Madin, L.P. & Swanberg, N.R. 1978. On the natural history and distribution of oceanic ctenophores. Deep-Sea Research 25: 233-256 [238] (Venus's Girdle)

 

History of changes

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