Species Leonura leptura Haeckel, 1880
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Reported in Australia by Whitelegge (1889) from New South Wales; New Zealand
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, planktonic.
Diagnosis
(as Leptobrachia leptopus): 80 mm wide, flatter than a hemisphere, exumbrella with regularly arranged polygonal elevations (caused during collecting by pressure of the net?); in each octant 8 + 2 sharply pointed lappets, the largest in the middle, converging furrows from the clefts upwards; mouth-arms about as long as bell diameter, slender, terminating in a triangular, pointed, naked extremity, 1/4 as long as entire mouth-arm.
Diagnosis 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 [375]
Notes
Mayer (1910: 696-697) regarded the species as identical to Leonura terminalis of Haeckel (1880: 646), which is a modern name for Leptobrachia leptopus (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821: 356). Kramp (1961: 375) regarded the species and genus doubtful under the name Leptobrachia leptopus.
General References
Chamisso, A. & Eysenhardt, C.G. 1821. De animalibus quibusdam e classe Vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff duce Ottone de Kotzebue, annis 1815–1818 per acta, observatis ... Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 10(2): 345–374, pls 24–33
Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer.
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]
Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 163-323
History of changes
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