Species Mastigias albipunctatus Stiasny, 1920
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Mastigias albipunctata Stiasny, G. 1920. Die Scyphomedusen-Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseums in Leiden. III, Rhizostomae. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 5: 213–230 [224].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH no. 153-175 170 specimens (collected by P. Buitendijk), Malayan Archipelago.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Reported from Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef, QLD by Stiasny (1931). Also reported from the Mergui Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
IMCRA
Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Mastigias with the body up to 145 mm wide, usually faintly vaulted, exumbrella with a network of nematocyst warts, with a whitish accumulation of nematocysts at apex; number of velar lappets variable, 6-14 in each octant; arm-disk with one very long central filament surrounded by several shorter; mouth-arms about as long as disk-radius, their terminal appendages variable in length and shape; 12-14 canal-roots in each octant; perradial rhopalar canals shorter and broader than the interradial, with few or no anastomoses.
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 [358]
General References
Stiasny, G. 1931. Die Rhizostomeen-Sammlung des British Museum (Natural History) in London. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 14: 137–178, 9 text-figs
History of changes
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