Genus Ocyropsis Mayer, 1912

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Genus Ocyropsis Mayer, 1912

Ocyropsis Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [37] [nom. nov. for Ocyroe Rang, 1828].
Ocyroe Rang, P.C.A.L. 1828. Description d'un nouveau genre de la classe des acalephès. Bulletin d'Histoire Naturelle de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 1: 314 [316] [preoccupied by Péron & Lesueur (1810) for a medusa].
Calymma Eschscholtz, J.F. von 1825. Bericht über die zoologische Ausbeute der Reise von Kronstadt bis St. Peter - und Paul. Isis von Oken, Jena 16(sect. 1, pt 6): 733–738 [741] [preoccupied by Hübner 1816 for Lepidoptera].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [37]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Atlantic, equatorial Pacific.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: Great Barrier Reef
- Tasmania

Neotropical Region

Brazil
- Amazonas

Diagnosis

Lobatae with body laterally compressed in the funnel-diameter and with large, muscular oral lappets. These lappets arise from the sides of the body in the stomodael axis, and it is mainly by means of their contractions that the animal is enabled to swim. The ciliated combs are not very numerous and in the young animal they tend to lie parallel with the meridional canals, as in Cestum. In the adult, however, they usually lie diagonally across the canal. The auricles are well developed and arise from the body near the sides of the oral lappets. There are no tentacles in the adult and no tentacular canals.

Diagnosis References

Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 [37]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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