Species Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903)
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Crossostoma anadyomene Maas, O. 1903. Die scyphomedusen der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga-Expeditie 11(livr. 10): 1–91, pls 1–12 [56].
Type data:
Syntype(s) Unknown 1 specimen, 20cm diameter, Siboga Station 314
Comment: Possibly held at Leiden Museum. - Versura anadyomene 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].
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 [363]
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.
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
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 [363]
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
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