Subspecies Ocyropsis maculata maculata (Rang, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ocyroe maculata Rang, P.C.A.L. 1828. Etablissement de la famille des Beroides dans l'ordre des Acalephes libres, et description de deux genres nouveaus qui lui appartiennent. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 4: 166-173, pls 19-20 [318, planche 20, figs I,2] [the name Ocyroe maculata was used on the plate for the description of Ocyroe tachee Rang, 1828].
• Ocyroe tachee Rang, P.C.A.L. 1828. Etablissement de la famille des Beroides dans l'ordre des Acalephes libres, et description de deux genres nouveaus qui lui appartiennent. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 4: 166-173, pls 19-20 [173] [called Ocyroe maculata in the plate].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lesson, R.P. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Zoophytes. Acalèphes. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret 596 pp. (Lesson may have renamed Ocyroe tachee Rang, 1828 as Ocyroe maculata; in Lesson (1843) both names are cited)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Heron Island, QLD; Amazonian Province, North Atlantic Slope region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic, planktonic, planktovore.

 

Diagnosis

Ocyropsis maculata with large diffuse yellow-brown to brownish black spots on inner surfaces of oral lobes

 

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 [414] (distribution record from Heron Island, QLD)

Mayer, A.G. 1912. Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 162: 1-58 (in list of synomyns for O. cyropsis maculata Mayer attributes the name maculata to Lesson, however it seems that most authors recognise Rang as the author; the name Ocyroe maculata was used by Rang for a plate depicting Ocyroe tachee)

 

History of changes

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