Genus Gerongia Gershwin & Alderlsade, 2005
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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- Gerongia Gershwin, L. & Alderslade, P. 2005. A new genus and species of box jellyfish (Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from tropical Australian waters. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 21: 27–36 [28].
Type species:
Gerongia rifkinae Gershwin & Alderslade, 2005 by original designation.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
IMCRA
Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northern Shelf Province (25), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Diagnosis
Tamoyidae with gastric phacellae absent; rhopalial horns short, broad, curved inward; adaxial pedalial keels broadly rounded, overhanging; upward pointing, blind-ending thorn-shaped pocket at bend of pedalial canal; base of tentacles greatly flared; large, ballooned stomach attached to subumbrellar walls by moderately well-developed perradial mesenteries; two parallel rows of low, rounded, nematocyst warts on the perradial lappets of the velarium.
Diagnosis References
Gershwin, L. & Alderslade, P. 2005. A new genus and species of box jellyfish (Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from tropical Australian waters. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 21: 27–36 [28]
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |