Species Crambione cookii Mayer, 1910
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Crambione cookii 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] [677] [the species was originally described with two "i"'s; although the second "i" was dropped by Kramp (1961), it is retained here].
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Originally reported from off Cooktown, QLD, on 4 May 1896; no other reports until early 2000 when a single beached specimen was photographed at Moreton Bay, QLD.
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, planktonic.
Diagnosis
110 mm, hemispherical, tough; smooth in flexible zone above margin, central inflexible part reticulated by deep, more or less radial furrows; in each octant 11 (9 + 2) large, pointed lappets, all alike; mouth arms about 3/4 the length of diameter; lower 2/3 three-winged, complexly folded; four slender filaments (as long as bell radius) from arm-disk; 2–6 globular appendages on outer side of each mouth-arm
Diagnosis References
Kramp, P.L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469 [373]
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |