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Atolla vanhoeffeni Russell 1957

Description

Atolla vanhoeffeni Russell, 1957

Material examined. AM G16025, east of Brush Island, NSW, 35° 36’S 150° 55’E, FRV Kapala, JP 77-13, 27 October 1977; 3 specimens, 33.17mm BD, 27.92mm BD, 15.77mm BD.

Remarks. The specimens match descriptions of A. vanhoeffeni by Russell (1957a, 1970) and Larson (1986b): i.e., the stomach is cruciform, with a pair of dark spots at each end of the cross. This is the first record of A. vanhoeffeni in Australian waters.

Other

Published as part of Gershwin, Lisa-Ann & Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2008, Some new and previously unrecorded Scyphomedusae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from southern Australian coastal waters, pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 1744 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274217

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Atollidae
Genus
Atolla
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coronatae
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Russell
Species
vanhoeffeni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atolla vanhoeffeni Russell, 1957 sec. Gershwin & Zeidler, 2008

References

  • Russell, F. S. (1957 a) On a new species of scyphomedusa, Atolla vanhoffeni n. sp. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 36, 275 - 279, pl. 1.
  • Russell, F. S. (1970) Medusae of the British Isles. II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a Supplement to the First Volume on Hydromedusae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 284 pp.
  • Larson, R. J. (1986) Pelagic scyphomedusae (Scyphozoa: Coronatae and Semaeostomeae) of the Southern Ocean. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XVI, Antarctic Research Series, 41, 59 - 165.