Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester 1880
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Fig. 48
Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880: 148.
Craspedacusta sowerbyi.— Edmondson, 1940: 314 [medusa only].— Matthews, 1963: 18, figs. 1, 2; 1966: 246, figs. 1–5.
Type locality. UK: London, Regent’s Park, “…in the tank in the water-lily house…” (Lankester 1880: 147).
Material examined. None.
Description. As for diagnosis of genus.
Remarks. Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 is a well-known freshwater species with a wide geographic range (Kramp 1961; Dumont 1994). Edmondson (1940) first reported the species from Hawaii, based on medusae found at Maliko Gulch, Maui. Both medusa and polyp stages were later reported from Honolulu in aquaria by Matthews (1963, 1966). No specimens of the hydroid were found in collections at the Bishop Museum, and it is not currently known to occur in limnic aquaria and culture systems at the Waikiki Aquarium (Gerald Crow & Kelley Lam, pers. comm., 30 July 2009).
A review of the global distribution, dispersal, and feeding ecology of C. sowerbii and other freshwater medusae is given by Dumont (1994).
Reported distribution. Hawaii. Maui: Maliko Gulch [medusa only] (Edmondson 1940).–Oahu: Honolulu, in aquaria (Matthews 1963, 1966).
Worldwide. All continents except Antarctica, in shallow subtropical and temperate fresh waters (Kramp 1961; Dumont 1994; Jankowski 2001; Jankowski et al. 2008; Zhang et al. 2009).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lankester
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Limnomedusae
- Family
- Olindiidae
- Genus
- Craspedacusta
- Species
- sowerbii
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- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 sec. Calder, 2010
References
- Lankester, E. R. (1880) On a new jelly-fish of the order Trachomedusae, living in fresh water. Nature, 22, 147 - 148.
- Edmondson, C. H. (1940) Fresh-water jellyfish in Hawaii. Science, 91, 313 - 314.
- Matthews, D. C. (1963) Freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbyi Lankester in Hawaii. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 82, 18 - 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.
- Dumont, H. J. (1994) The distribution and ecology of the fresh- and brackish-water medusae of the world. Hydrobiologia, 272, 1 - 12.
- Matthews, D. C. (1966) A comparative study of Craspedacusta sowerbyi and Calpasoma dactyloptera life cycles. Pacific Science, 20, 246 - 259.
- Jankowski, T. (2001) The freshwater medusae of the world - a taxonomic and systematic literature study with some remarks on other inland water jellyfish. Hydrobiologia, 462, 91 - 113.
- Jankowski, T., Collins, A. G. & Campbell, R. (2008) Global diversity of inland water cnidarians. Hydrobiologia, 595, 35 - 40.
- Zhang, L. Q., Wang, G. T., Yao, W. J., Li, W. X. & Gao, Q. (2009) Molecular systematics of medusae in the genus Craspedacusta (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Limnomedusae) in China with the reference to the identity of species. Journal of Plankton Research, 31, 563 - 570.