Species Lobonema mayeri Light, 1914
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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- Lobonema mayeri Light, S.F. 1914. Some Philippine Scyphomedusae, including two new genera, five new species, and one new variety. Philippine Journal of Science D 9: 195–231 [217].
Type data:
Syntype(s) UPLB C2424 2 specimens, Malampaya Sound, west coast of Palawan.
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Lobonema smithii Mayer, 1910 [misidentification]. —
Williamson, J., Fenner, P., Burnett, J. & Rifkin, J. (eds) 1996. Venomous and Poisonous Marine Animals: a medical and biological handbook. Sydney, Australia : NSW University Press 800 pp.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Philippines
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, marine, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Differs from L. smithii in that it has 12-16 rhopalia instead of eight, in that the circular muscle is completely interrupted in the ocular radii, in that it has a false ostium in each interostial pillar, and in that the inter-rhopaliar canals do not reach the bell margin.
Diagnosis References
Light, S.F. 1914. Some Philippine Scyphomedusae, including two new genera, five new species, and one new variety. Philippine Journal of Science D 9: 195–231 [221]
Notes
Lobonema has been further photographed by Kevin Kinnealey with hitch-hiking brittle stars, in the waters off tropical Western Australia.
General References
Williamson, J., Fenner, P., Burnett, J. & Rifkin, J. (eds) 1996. Venomous and Poisonous Marine Animals: a medical and biological handbook. Sydney, Australia : NSW University Press 800 pp. (misidentified as Lobonema smithii Mayer, 1910)
History of changes
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