Genus Rhopilema Haeckel, 1880
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Rhopilema Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [596].
Type species:
Rhopilema rhopalophora 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] [704].
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Widely distributed: Madagascar, USA, British Indian Ocean Territory, China (People's Republic), Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand. Egypt, Japan
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Distribution References
Diagnosis
Rhizostomatidae with large scapulets and long manubrium; mouth-arms with numerous clubs or filaments and usually with a large terminaI club; usually without a ring canal; canal network broad with numerous fine meshes; inter-rhopalar canals wide.
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 [379]
Notes
Species identification in the genus Rhopilema is primarily based on number and shape of velar lappets, presence or absence of radial grooves in the margin of the exumbrella, manubrium length, size and shape of terminal clubs on the oral arms, and arrangement and form of other oral arm appendages.
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |