Species Haplorhiza simplex Haeckel, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haplorhiza simplex Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [604].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MGH unnumbered (50mm wide, 20mm high), Bass Strait.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, neritic, planktonic.

Diagnosis

Haplorhiza with umbrella flat orbicular with 48 marginal flaps (in each Octant 4 large square velar-flaps between 2 tongue-shaped projecting ocular-flaps), 8 arms quite simple, cylindrical, as long as the radius of the umbrella. Sub-genital ostia about as broad as the distance between them.

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 the Bass Strait; not reported since.

Regarded valid by von Lendenfeld (1884d: 293); Mayer (1910: 713) regarded as unrecognizable juvenile; Kramp (1961) and Stiansy (1921) did not treat this species.

General 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

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]

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 [293]

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