Species Chrysaora southcotti Gershwin & Zeidler, 2008
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Chrysaora southcotti Gershwin, L. & Zeidler, W. 2008. Some new and previously unrecorded Scyphomedusae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from southern Australian coastal waters. Zootaxa 1744: 1–18 [7-11, pls 3, 4].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA SAM H969 male specimen, preserved in formalin (Bell diameter 66.0 mm, longest oral arm 20.3 mm), Port Noarlunga, SA, drifting with current at surface in 8–10 m, coll. L. Gershwin & W. Zeidler, 18.i.1999
Comment: A large number of paratypes are held.
Distribution
States
South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Type locality: Port Noarlunga, South Australia.
Australian Endemic.
Diagnosis
Chrysaora with exumbrellar rhopalial pits moderately deep, broadly rounded or narrowly conical, blind ending. Subumbrellar rhopalial pits wide and open. Exumbrella and oral arms densely covered with conspicuous warts. Gastric septa tilting slightly toward rhopalia in distal quarter, meeting margin or stopping short of it, along the rhopalial side of outermost tentacle in each group. Tentacles 40. Lappets 48, of two forms. Diameter to approximately 66 mm. Coloration: bell whitish with warts pigmented red, tentacles white, oral arms appearing dark red to blackish due to heavy concentration of red nematocyst warts.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |