Species Versuriga vesicata (Haeckel, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Versura vesicata Haeckel, E. 1880. System der Acraspeden. Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen. Jena : G. Fischer. [645].

Generic Combinations

• Versuriga vesicata (Haeckel, 1880).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

This species was described from material collected by Weber from the northwest coast of Australia. It has not been reported since.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Diagnosis

Versuriga with the umbrella flat, scutiform, with 8 deep ocular incisions, 208 coalescing marginal flaps (in each Octant 24 narrow rectangular velar flaps between 2 rudimentary ocular flaps). Subgenital ostia half as broad as the pillars between them. Arms about as long as the radius of the Umbrella, doubly pinnate, flat, spread out as long as broad.

Diagnosis References

Von Lendenfeld, R. 1884. The scyphomedusae of the southern hemisphere. Part III. - Conclusion. IV. Ordo - Discomedusae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 259–306 [296]

Notes

von Lendenfeld (1884d: 296) regarded this species as valid; Mayer (1910: 686) regarded it as possibly valid; Stiansy (1922e: 539) and Kramp (1961: 363) both considered it to be doubtful.

General 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 [363] (considered this species as doubtful)

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] [686] (regarded this species as possibly valid)

Von Lendenfeld, R. 1884. Local colour varieties of Scyphomedusa: A new species produced in forty years. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Ser. 5 14: 409–412 [296] (regarded this species as valid)

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