Genus Versuriga Kramp, 1961

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• Versuriga Kramp, P.L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469 [362].

  Type species:

   Crossostoma anadyomene Maas, 1903 (=Versuriga anadyomene (Kramp, 1961)) by monotypy.
• Versura Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [606].

  Type species:

   Versura palmata 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] [685].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kramp, P.L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469 [362]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

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 [362]

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.

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