Species Haplorhiza punctata Haeckel, 1880
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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- Haplorhiza punctata Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [604].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (J.M. Elsey), Arnhem Land.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Haplorhiza with umbrella slightly vaulted with 176 marginal flaps (in each Octant 10 pair of narrow round velar flaps, between 2 small recurved ocular flaps), 8 arms quite simple, cylindrical, half as long as the radius of the Umbrella. Sub-genital-ostia 3 times as broad as the pillars. Colour : Exumbrella dark violet-brown, equally speckled with white spots.
Diagnosis References
Von Lendenfeld, R. 1884. The scyphomedusae of the southern hemisphere. Part III. - Conclusion. IV. Ordo - Discomedusae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 259–306 [294]
Notes
Originally described from Arnhem Land, NT; not reported since.
Regarded valid by von Lendenfeld (1884d: 294); Mayer (1910: 713) regarded as a juvenile; Kramp (1961) and Stiansy (1921) did not treat the species.
General References
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] [713]
History of changes
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