Genus Leucothea Mertens, 1833

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Regional Maps

• Leucothea Mertens, H. 1833. Beobachtungen und untersuchungen über die beroeartigen akalephen. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 6 2: 479-544, pls 1-13 [499].
• Eucharis Eschscholtz, J.F. von 1825. Bericht über die zoologische Ausbeute der Reise von Kronstadt bis St. Peter - und Paul. Isis von Oken, Jena 16(sect. 1, pt 6): 733–738 [742] [preoccupied by Latreille for Hymenoptera in 1804; used for Mollusca in 1807 by Peron].
• Alcinoe Delle Chiaje, S. 1829. Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli. Napoli : Stamperia della Societa' Tipografica Vol. IV viii, 214 pp. [7] [used for a Mnemiopsis-like ctenophore by Rang in 1828].

  Secondary source:

   Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [35].
• Chiaja Lesson, R.P. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Zoophytes. Acalèphes. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret 596 pp. [77].
• Eschscholtzia Agassiz, 1846.
• Eschscholthia Lesson, R.P. 1836. Memoire sur la famille des Beroides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 2 5: 235-266 [pls 1–2 referenced, but could not be located] [254].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [34]
• Krumbach, T. 1925. Ctenophora. pp. 905-995 in Kukenthal, W. & Krumbach, T. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Berlin : W. de Gruyter Vol. 1. [908]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

More or less cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania

Diagnosis

Lobatae in which the oral lobes are of large size and contain complexly-winding chymiferous tubes. The auricles are long, thick, and coiled in helices with the cilia extending in a loop up and down one side. The outer surface of the body and lobes are covered with long, conical papille. The aboral blind ends of the subtentacular meridional canals are long. The 2 median tentacles are very long; 2 long, blindly ending, pit-like depressions extend inward from above the tentacles nearly to the level of the funnel.

 

Diagnosis References

Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [34]

 

Note

A number of undescribed and/or unidentified species have been reported from Australian waters.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)