Genus Chrysaora Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Chrysaora 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 [364].
Type species:
Chrysaora mediterranea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 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] [577] (Unfortunately, the type species of the genus, Chrysaora mediterranea, has not been accepted as valid for many years.).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IMCRA
Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)
Diagnosis
Pelagiidae generally with a conspicuous star pattern on the exumbrellar surface; the bell surface typically lacking conspicuous warts; with sense organs embedded in deep pits; with septa terminating near the tentacles; with gonadal tissues contained largely within the subumbrellar pouches; with ephyrae bearing a ring of round nematocyst patches on the exumbrella and a pair of oblong patches flanking each rhopalium.
ID Keys
A field key to eight species of Chrysaora from the Americas and Europe was provided by Gershwin & Collins (2002).
Diagnosis References
Gershwin, L. & A. Collins 2002. A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa), with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb. nov. Journal of Natural History 36(2): 127-148 [134]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |