Species Cyanea muellerianthe Haacke, 1887
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June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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- Cyanea muellerianthe Haacke, W. 1887. Die Scyphomedusen des St. Vincent Golfes. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 20: 588–638, 3 pls [605].
Distribution
States
South Australia
IMCRA
Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, marine, medusivorous, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Cyanea with the umbrella flat, disk-shaped, without bowl-form deepening of the Exumbrella, 5-7 times as wide as high. Umbrella-radius hardly 3 times as big as the radius of the central-stomach. 16 Ephyra-lappets rounded off, shallow, twice as broad as long. Ocular-pouches almost rectangular, cut into in the periphery by the sensory knobs, with weakly S-form bent margins in the distal half. Tentacle-pouches at the basis hardly 1 ½ times, in the periphery of the sense knob, where they are already dissolved where the canal branches, approximately 3 times as wide as the Ocular-pouches. (Electronically translated from Haacke, 1887).
Living material: Colour is between milk white and rose and yellow brown.
Size: bell radius 47mm of specimen described; living material: bell width 200, height to 20mm.
Notes
Mayer (1910) regarded the species as a synonym of C. annaskala; Stiasny & van der Maaden (1943) and Kramp (1961) regarded it as doubtful.
General References
Haacke, W. 1887. Die Scyphomedusen des St. Vincent Golfes. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 20: 588–638, 3 pls
Kramp, P.L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469
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]
Stiasny, G. & van der Maaden, H. 1943. Über Scyphomedusen aus dem Ochotskischen und Kamtschatka Meer nebst einer Kritik der Genera Cyanea und Desmonema. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 76(3): 227-266
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