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Species Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903)


Compiler and date details

June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin

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Generic Combinations

  • Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Reported in Australia by Stiasny (1931) from off Wilson Islet, Capricorn Group, QLD, in January 1930.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, neritic, planktonic.

 

Diagnosis

Up to 600 mm wide, quite flat, exumbrella with network of anastomosing furrows; in each omnt about eight large semicircular velar lappets alternating with small, narrow lappets; arm-disk with filaments; mouth-arms about as long as disk radius, strongly laterally compressed, with numerous flat, membraneous branches, with small club-shaped vesicles and on ventral side tapering filaments; perradial rhopalar canals broad, without anastomoses, the interradial narrow, with numerous anastomoses

 

Notes

Originally described into the genus Crossostoma, Mayer (1910: 686) moved the species to Haeckel's genus Versura because Crossostoma was preoccupied by Morris & Lycett (1850) for Mollusca. Stiasny (1922e: 538) then found that Haeckel's V. palmata, the type species of the genus, is actually a Mastigias papua, leaving the genus without a type species. Kramp (1961b: 362) thus renamed the genus as Versuriga, for the species V. anadyomene as the type and V. pinnata and V. vesicata considered doubtful.

 

General References

Stiasny, G. 1931. Über einige coelenterata von Australien. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 14(1–2): 27–42, 1 text-fig (distribution)

 

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)
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