Species Mastigias andersoni Stiasny, 1926
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Mastigias andersoni Stiasny, G. 1926. Alte und neue Scyphomedusen von Australien. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 9: 249–257 [252].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM no. 1 5 specimens (collected by E.H. Rainford, January 1924), Bowen Harbour, Port Denison, QLD; AM no. 2 1 specimen (collected by Dr. W.E.J. Paradice, Lieut. Surg. HMAS Geranium, December 1923), Observation Island, Sir Edward Pellew Group, Gulf of Carpentaria.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
This species is an Australian endemic, originally described from Bowen and the Gulf of Carpentaria; it has not been recorded since.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, neritic, planktonic.
Diagnosis
Mastigias with a body up to 90 mm wide, vaulted, exumbrella with polygonal network of nematocyst warts; six broad velar lappers in each octant, the two median lappets usually split; arm-disk quadratic, with one central and four peripheral fiiaments; mouth-arms about as long as disk radius, without filaments, terminal appendages long, with a club-shaped swelling at the end of the long, thin pedicel; 12-15 (or 18) canal-roots in each octant; perradial rhopalar canals bottle-shaped, without 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]
History of changes
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