Genus Palephyra Haeckel, 1880
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Palephyra Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [483].
Type species:
Palephyra antigua Haeckel, 1880 by subsequent designation, see Mayer, A.G. 1910. Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, The Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution 735 pp., 76 pls. [reprinted by A. Asher & Co., 1977] [551].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Mayer, A.G. 1910. Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, The Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution 735 pp., 76 pls. [reprinted by A. Asher & Co., 1977] [551]
Distribution
Recorded from "Australia".
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Nausithoidae with four interradial 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 [317]
General 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 [317] (followed Mayer's (1910) interpretation of genera)
Mayer, A.G. 1910. Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, The Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution 735 pp., 76 pls. [reprinted by A. Asher & Co., 1977] [551] (included Péron & Lesueur's genus Ephyra + Haeckel's genera Palephyra + Zonephyra in the genus Palephyra, and considered the genus Ephyra to be merely the young of Palephyra, which he considered to be identical to Zonephyra)
History of changes
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