Species Cyanea annaskala Von Lendenfeld, 1882
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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- Cyanea annaskala Von Lendenfeld, R. 1882. Über Coelenteraten der Südsee. I. Cyanea annaskala, sp. n. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 37: 465–552, pls XXVII–XXXIII [465].
Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement
- von Lendenfeld, R. 1885. Local colour varieties of Scyphomedusae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 925–928 [928]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Victoria
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, epipelagic, estuary, marine, medusivorous, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Cyanea with the exumbrella papillose; with bifurculate lappets; with up to 150 tentacles per cluster; with muscle folds appearing simple, separated by flat septa; with 16-20 coronal muscle folds per cluster, lacking pit-like intrusions from the gut; with angular ends to the radial muscle groups; without radial canal anastomoses; with O-isorhiza nematocysts on the exumbrella.
Diagnosis References
Notes
Originally described from Port Philip Bay, subsequently reported in Victoria by von Lendenfeld (1884d: 275), and in New South Wales by Stiasny (1931b), Pope (1949, 1953a). A comprehensive treatment of the species was given by Condon (1997).
Outside Australia, this species has been reported from Auckland Island by Benham (1909).
General References
Dawson, M. N. 2005. Cyanea capillata is not a cosmopolitan jellyfish: morphological and molecular evidence for C. annaskala and C. rosea (Scyphozoa : Semaeostomeae : Cyaneidae) in south-eastern Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 19(4): 361-370
History of changes
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