Species Chiropsella bart Gershwin & Alderslade, 2006
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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- Chiropsella bart Gershwin, L. & Alderslade, P. 2006. Chiropsella bart, n. sp., a new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida) from the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 22: 15–21 [15].
Type data:
Holotype NTM C15252, Town Beach, Nhulunbuy, Gove Peninsula, NT.
Paratype(s) NTM C14603, Nhulunbuy, Gove Peninsula, NT.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
From eastern Arnhem Land along the Gulf of Carpentaria.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, marine, nectonic, pelagic.
Extra Ecological Information
Renowned locally for occurring only in the so-called 'safe season' (i.e., the dry season).
Diagnosis
Chiropsella species reaching about 5 cm bell height with up to about 5 tentacles per pedalium; with long scalpel-like pedalia with main tentacles forming a more or less terminal cluster; with volcano-shaped diverticulum on pedalial canal near pedalial base; with coalesced solid, knob-like gastric saccules, appearing as single kidneybean-shaped structure.
Diagnosis References
Gershwin, L. & Alderslade, P. 2006. Chiropsella bart, n. sp., a new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida) from the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 22: 15–21 [16]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |