Species Chrysaora kynthia Gershwin & Zeidler, 2008
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Chrysaora kynthia Gershwin, L. & Zeidler, W. 2008. Some new and previously unrecorded Scyphomedusae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from southern Australian coastal waters. Zootaxa 1744: 1–18 [4-7, pls 1, 2].
Type data:
Holotype WAM WAM Z9944 Male specimen, preserved in formalin (Bell diameter 86 mm), South Mole, Fremantle, WA, coll. K. Usher, at surface, 7.ii.2000.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Type locality: South Mole, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Australian Endemic.
Diagnosis
Chrysaora with 24 tentacles, with inner core sometimes pleated; exumbrellar rhopalial cone wide, tapering, not open to rhopalium; radial gastric septa bent, not S-shaped; gonads delicate and inverted W-shaped; lacking any pigmentation or star pattern.
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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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |