Species Porpita porpita (Linnaeus, 1758)

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External Links

• Medusa porpita Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [659].
• Porpita pacifica Lesson, R.P. 1826. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté‚ par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, 'La Coquille', Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1835. Histoire naturelle, zoologie. Atlas. Zoophytes. Paris : Arthus Bertrand. [59-60, pl. 7, fig.. 3].
• Porpita chrysocoma Lesson, R.P. 1826. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté‚ par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, 'La Coquille', Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1835. Histoire naturelle, zoologie. Atlas. Zoophytes. Paris : Arthus Bertrand. [58. Pl. 7, fig. 1].

 

Generic Combinations

• Porpita porpita (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Brinckmann-Voss, A. 1970. Anthomedusae/Athecatae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) of the Mediterranean. Part I Capitata. Fauna e Flora del Golfo di Napoli 39: 1-96, pls 1-11

 

Introduction

This is the only Porpita species known to occur in Australia. It has been widely recorded.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Size of float is 2 - 5cm: planktonic.

Colonial, hermaphrodite.

 

General References

Barnes, J.H. 1964. Siphonophores, Part 2. North Queensland Naturalist 32: 5–8

Bennett, G. 1860. Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia: being observations principally on the animal and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral islands. London : John van Voorst.

Bennett, I. 1966. The Fringe of the Sea. Adelaide : Rigby.

Dakin, W.J. 1987. Australian Seashores (revised I.Bennett). North Ryde, NSW. : Angus & Robertson 411 pp.

Dakin, W.J. & Colefax, A.N. 1940. The plankton of the Australian coastal waters off New South Wales. Part I. Publications of the University of Sydney, Department of Zoology. Monograph 1: 1-215

Davie, P. 1998. Wild Guide to Moreton Bay. Wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast – Noosa to the Tweed. Brisbane : Queensland Museum xxiv 408 pp.

Gershwin, L., Zeidler, W. & Davie, P.J.F. 2010. Medusae of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3): 47-108

Gillett, K. & Yaldwyn, J.C. 1969. Australian Seashores in Colour. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed 112 pp.

Hamond, R. 1971. Some medusae from near Brisbane. Search (Sydney) 2(1): 27

Hamond, R. 1974. Some medusae and other Hydrozoa from Indian Ocean and Bass-Strait. Journal of Natural History 8: 549–561

Pope, E.C. 1953. Sea lice or jellyfish? Australian Museum Magazine 11(1): 16–21

Schuchert, P. 1996. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Athecate hydroids and their medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Memoir. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 106: 1-159 [98]

Southcott, R.V. 1982. Jellyfishes (Classes Scyphozoa and Hydrozoa). pp. 115–159 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp.

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 163-323

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Sep-2018	HYDROZOA Owen, 1843	19-Jul-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Narissa Bax
05-Aug-2022	MEDUSOZOA Petersen, 1979	15-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Lisa Gershwin
05-Aug-2022		17-Apr-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		26-Jul-2011	(import)