Genus Coeloplana Kowalevsky, 1880

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Madagascar, Somalia, Japan; cosmopolitan.


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IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Diagnosis

With the features of the family. Coeloplana often have a high host specificity and may or may not have an oral groove and can form temporary chimneys. The other genus in the family (Vallicula) does not have a high host specificity.

 

Diagnosis References

Matsumoto, G.I. 1999. Coeloplana thomsoni sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from western Australia. pp. 385-393 in Walker, D.I. & Wells, F.E. (eds). The Seagrass Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum. [387]

 

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Species Coeloplana mellosa Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Coeloplana on Sarcophyton host; with brown translucent body with whitish ectodermal fine meshwork pattern, appearing to the unaided eye as a whitish body with hundreds of tiny brown dots; in live animals, papillae about 20, cylindrical, in longitudinal X-pattern through the statocyst; or in preserved specimens over 100, in 16 rows, in three sizes, of two types; with four-lobed statocyst palps.

 

History of changes

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Species Coeloplana meteoris Thiel, 1968

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Orpheus Island, NE QLD see Arnold (1993); Madagascar, Somalia


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IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, free-living.

 

Diagnosis

Ctenophore benthic in soft sediments; ctenophore colour clear with yellow white reticulations covering body and red pigmentation around canals, tentacle sheaths and papillae

 

Diagnosis References

Matsumoto, G.I. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1996. Coeloplana scaberiae sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 29(1): 33-40 [38]

 

General References

Arnold, P. 1993. First record of ctenophore Coeloplana (Benthoplana) meteoris (Thiel, 1968) from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33(1): 16 (reported from Orpheus Island, NE QLD)

Fricke, H.W. & Plante, R. 1971. Contribution à l'étude des cténophores platycténides de Madagascar: Ctenoplana (Diploctena n. s. gen.) neritica n. sp. et Coeloplana (Benthoplana n. s. gen.) meteoris (Thiel 1968). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 12: 57-75 (authors placed the species in the subgenus Benthoplana; reported species from NW Madagascar)

Matsumoto, G.I. 1999. Coeloplana thomsoni sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from western Australia. pp. 385-393 in Walker, D.I. & Wells, F.E. (eds). The Seagrass Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum. (identification key)

Matsumoto, G.I. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1996. Coeloplana scaberiae sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 29(1): 33-40 (identification key)

 

History of changes

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Species Coeloplana reichelti Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Coeloplana on various green and red algal and seagrass hosts; with yellowish translucent body with numerous tiny ectodermal green specks, with whitish cells on branches of papillae and around margin, giving frosted appearance; in live animals, 20 permanent irregularly branched, primary papillae, arranged in figure-8 pattern, plus 8 ephemeral second ary papillae, 4 each in two rows, cylin drical, unbranched; with smoothly rounded statocyst palps.

 

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Species Coeloplana scaberiae Matsumoto & Gowlett-Holmes, 1996

 

Distribution

States

South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.


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IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, epiphytic.

Extra Ecological Information

Commensal on brown alga Scaberia agardhii.

 

Diagnosis

Distinguished from other species in the genus by its bright red or orange colour and its specific host plant, the brown alga Scaberia agardhii Greville.

 

Diagnosis References

Matsumoto, G.I. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1996. Coeloplana scaberiae sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 29(1): 33-40 [33]

 

Notes

Species epithet derived from the generic name of its host alga, Scaberia, in recognition of the specific association between the two species; the Latin scabar (rough, scabby, or mangy) describes both the ctenophore and its host.

 

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Species Coeloplana thomsoni Matsumoto, 1999

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Rottnest Island, WA.

Known only from type locality.


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IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, epiphytic, marine.

 

Diagnosis

Found in two distinct colour morphs (green and white), reaches a length of 1 cm and appears to have a very limited distribution. Thus far, it has only been found in one area of Rottnest Island living as an epiphyte, Jania sp. (order Cryptonemiales, family Corallinaceae) in the low intertidal region.

 

Diagnosis References

Matsumoto, G.I. 1999. Coeloplana thomsoni sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from western Australia. pp. 385-393 in Walker, D.I. & Wells, F.E. (eds). The Seagrass Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum. [385]

 

Notes

Species named in recognition of the type locality (Thomson Bay) and of Robert Thomson, who was one of the first settlers on Rottnest Island and together with his family, earned a living by fishing, collecting salt, and farming between 1831 and 1838.

 

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Species Coeloplana willeyi Abbott, 1902

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Portsea, VIC; Misaki, Japan.


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IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, gregarious.

Extra Ecological Information

Found on algae (Zostera, Melobesia) or rocks.

 

Diagnosis

Average size: one to two centimeters across. Very contractile and extensible; amoeboid in movement. When killed, roughly circular in shape. In life, no consistent body-shape is maintained. Dorsal tentacles club shaped or cylindrical, not branched or fringed. Colour scarlet or carmine red, fading towards the edges to a yellowish pink. Chalky white spots about margins. Color deepest along the raised axis of the tentacle sheaths. Dorsal tentacles frequently with yellowish blotches at the bases.

 

Diagnosis References

Abbott, J.F. 1902. Preliminary notes on Coeloplana. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 4: 103-108 [108]

 

General References

Matsumoto, G.I. 1999. Coeloplana thomsoni sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from western Australia. pp. 385-393 in Walker, D.I. & Wells, F.E. (eds). The Seagrass Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum. (identification key)

Matsumoto, G.I. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1996. Coeloplana scaberiae sp. nov., a new benthic ctenophore (Ctenophora: Platyctenida: Coeloplanidae) from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 29(1): 33-40 (identification key)

Smith, B.J. & Plant, R.J. 1976. A creeping ctenophoran (Platyctenea: Ctenophora) from Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 37: 43-46 (reported species in Australia)

 

History of changes

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