Genus Pelagia Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
This taxon is under review. This record is released now for public view, prior to final verification. For further information or comment email us.
- Pelagia Péron & Lesueur, 1810.
Type species:
Medusa noctiluca Forsskål, 1775 (=Pelagia noctiluca (Péron & Lesueur, 1810)) 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] [570].Secondary source:
Péron, F. & C.A. Lesueur 1809. Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 14: 325-366 [Figures not published] [349].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IMCRA
Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)
Diagnosis
Pelagiidae with a conspicuously warty exumbrellar surface, lacking a pigmented star pattern; with eight marginal tentacles alternating with eight marginal sense organs; with shallow rhopaliar pits; with septa terminating midway between the rhopalia and tentacles; with gonadal tissues primarily not contained within the gonadal pouches.
Diagnosis References
Gershwin, L. & A. Collins 2002. A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa), with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb. nov. Journal of Natural History 36(2): 127-148 [134]
General References
Gershwin, L. & A. Collins 2002. A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa), with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb. nov. Journal of Natural History 36(2): 127-148 [127]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Aug-2022 | MEDUSOZOA Petersen, 1979 | 20-Jul-2016 | MODIFIED | Dr Lisa Gershwin |
| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |