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Eumedusa Bigelow, 1920 New

Description

Eumedusa Bigelow, 1920 New record to China

Eumedusa n. g. Bigelow, 1920: 7; Kramp, 1961: 122; Bouillon et al., 2006: 180. Type species: Eumedusa birulai (Linko, 1913).

Diagnosis. Medusa with 4 unbranched radial canals and 4 or more centripetal canals arising from circular canal; gonads folded; tentacles of two kinds, large hollow ones with terminal knob, small ones without terminal knob; no ocelli.

Notes

Published as part of Zhenzu Xu, Jiaqi Huang, Mao Lin, Donghui Guo & Chunguang Wang, 2016, Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from South China Sea II: Family Bythotiaridae (Anthomedusae), pp. 149-157 in Zoological Systematics 41 (2) on page 152, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2016013, http://zenodo.org/record/270289

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Biodiversity

Family
Bythotiaridae
Genus
Eumedusa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anthoathecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Bigelow, 1920 New
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Bigelow, H. B. 1920. Medusae and Ctenophores from the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913 - 18. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 18, 8 (H): 1 - 22.
  • Kramp, P. L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 40: 1 - 469.
  • Bouillon, J. Gravili, C. Pages, F. Gili, J-M, Boero, F. 2006. An introduction to Hydrozoa. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle, 194: 1 - 591.