Subspecies Ocyropsis crystallina crystallina (Rang, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ocyroe crystallina 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 [172].

 

Generic Combinations

• Ocyropsis crystallina crystallina (Rang, 1828).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Heron Island; southern Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic, planktonic, planktovore.

 

Diagnosis

Without spots on oral lobes, even when sexually mature.

 

Diagnosis References

Harbison, G.R. & Miller, R.L. 1986. Not all ctenophores are hermaphrodites. Studies on the systematics, distribution, sexuality and development of two species of Ocyropsis. Marine Biology 90: 413-424 [414]

 

General References

Harbison, G.R. & Miller, R.L. 1986. Not all ctenophores are hermaphrodites. Studies on the systematics, distribution, sexuality and development of two species of Ocyropsis. Marine Biology 90: 413-424 (O. crystallina reported from Heron Island)

 

History of changes

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