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Genus Versuriga Kramp, 1961


Compiler and date details

June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin

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Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Diagnosis

Versurigidae with mouth-arms three-winged, broad, with secondary lappets and with clubs and
filaments; without a terminal appendage; arm-disk with filaments

 

Notes

As detailed more fully by Kramp (1961b: 362), the type species of Haeckel's (1880: 606) genus Versura, namely V. palmata, was found to be a Mastigias ocellata by Stiasny (1922e: 538; erroneously indicated by Kramp as M. papua).

The generic name Crossostoma Agassiz (1862: 155), which was used by Maas (1903) for C. anadyomene, could not be used, because the type species was a Cassiopea and the genus was preoccupied for a Mollusc.

Kramp thus proposed the new genus Versuriga, with V. anadyomene as the only valid species.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013 MODIFIED