Species Chiropsalmus quadrumanus (Müller, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chiropsalmus quadrumanus Müller, F. 1859. Zwei neue Quallen von Santa Catharina. Abhandlungen des Naturforschenden Gessellschaft Halle 5(1): 12 pp., pls I–III [3].

  Type data:

   Neotype MZUSP 493 (22 February 2001, collected by bottom trawl over very muddy bottom, 7–10m, by A.C. Marques), Costão do Carneiro, in front of Enseada beach, Ubatuba, São Paulo State, Brazil.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gershwin, L. 2006. Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1231: 1-42 [7].

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

United States of America: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas; Belize, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, marine, pelagic.

Diagnosis

Chiropsalmus with exumbrellar nematocyst warts; with up to ten, oppositely-arranged tentacles on each pedalium; with short, hollow, finger-like gastric saccules.

Diagnosis References

Gershwin, L. 2006. Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1231: 1-42 [9]

Notes

Reported in Australia by: Stiasny, 1926b (NT); Edmonds, 1975. The Stiasny specimen from Port Darwin (reg. 4188) could not be located, but is unlikly to be an accurate identification.

Chiropsalmus quadrumanus is an Atlantic species and has not been credibly reported in Australian waters.

General References

Edmonds, C. 1975. Dangerous Marine Animals of the Indo-Pacific Region. Newport, Victoria, Australia : Wedneil Publications.

Gershwin, L. 2006. Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1231: 1-42 [6] (Taxonomic revision)

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