Species Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri Goy, 1990
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri Goy, J. 1990. Preliminary observations on the zooplankton of Shark Bay, Western Australia, with emphasis on medusae and description of a new rhizostome jellyfish (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa). 325 in Berry, P.F., Bradshaw, S.D. & Wilson, B.R. (eds). Research in Shark Bay: Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee. Perth : Western Australian Museum. [111].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP 1720 (coll. August 1988 by J. Goy), Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, WA.
Introduction
This species is similar to P. punctata and P. pacifica, but differs from both in the triple heart-shaped knob of the oral filaments, and in its hyperhaline habitat (Gershwin 2007 personal communication).
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29)
Ecological Descriptors
Hyperhaline, marine.
Diagnosis
Rhizostomeae with some double velar lappets typical of Phyllorhiza, with marginal arrangement between two rhopaliar lappets; two single, two double, two single velar lappets, oral filament with triple heart-shaped distal knob with aperture of a branch of oral canal at the end. Always in hyperhaline waters in association with stromatolites.
Diagnosis References
Goy, J. 1990. Preliminary observations on the zooplankton of Shark Bay, Western Australia, with emphasis on medusae and description of a new rhizostome jellyfish (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa). 325 in Berry, P.F., Bradshaw, S.D. & Wilson, B.R. (eds). Research in Shark Bay: Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee. Perth : Western Australian Museum. [111]
History of changes
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