Genus Mastigias L. Agassiz, 1862
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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Type species:
Cephea papua Lesson, 1829 (=Mastigias papua (L. Agassiz, 1862)) by subsequent designation, see 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] [677].
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Diagnosis
Mastigiidae with mouth-arms terminating in a naked, club-shaped extremity; mouths not only along the three edges of the mouth-arms, but also on their flat, expanded sides; numerous small clubs and filaments between the frilled mouths; intracircular mesh-work of canals with 6-20 canal-roots in each octant, usually communicating with the rhopalar canals.
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 [357]
Notes
The genus Mastigias was originally proposed for Lesson's (1829: 122) Cephea papua from Waigiou Island. Kramp (1961b) recognised eight species in the genus, although many more have been previously named but lost in synonymy. This genus is badly in need of a modern taxonomic revision.
Mastigias is one of the commonest and most recognisable medusae along the coasts of the tropical Indo-Pacific.
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
History of changes
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