Species Nausithoe punctata Kölliker, 1853
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
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- Nausithoe punctata Kölliker, A. in Gegenbaur, C. Kölliker, A. & Müller, H. 1853. Bericht uber einige im Herbste 1852 in Messina angestellte vergleichende-anastomische Untersuchungen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 4(3–4): 306–329 (in all 299–370) [323].
Distribution
States
Queensland, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Reported from Queensland by Mayer (1915) and Kramp (1961) and the Great Australian Bight by Gershwin & Zeidler (2003). Cosmopolitan in tropical and subtropical oceans and seas.
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, epipelagic, marine, planktonic.
Extra Ecological Information
Polyps have been raised from Queensland specimens by Gershwin (unpublished notes, 2000).
Diagnosis
Nausithoe with 9-15 mm wide, discoidal body; central disk thick, without radiating furrows, finely punctured; gastral filaments not grouped in clusters; large gonads.
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 [316]
Notes
Reported in Queensland by Mayer (1915) and Kramp (1961a); in the Great Australian Bight by Gershwin & Zeidler (2003). Polyps raised from Queensland specimens by Gershwin (unpublished notes, 2000).
General References
Gershwin, L. & Zeidler, W. 2003. Encounter 2002 expedition to the Isles of St Francis, South Australia: Medusae, siphonophores and ctenophores of the Nuyts Archipelago. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 127(2): 205-241, 14 pls (distribution)
Kramp, P.L. 1961. Some medusae from northern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 85: 197–205 (distribution)
Mayer, A.G. 1915. Medusae of the Philippines and of Torres Straits. Being a report on the Scyphomedusae collected by the U.S. Fisheries Bureau steamer 'Albatross' in the Philippine Islands and Malay Archipelago, 1907–1910, and upon the medusae collected by the expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington to Torres Straits, Australia, in 1913. Papers of the Tortugas Laboratory 8: 157–202, pls 1–3 (distribution)
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |