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Medusa aequorea Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.

Description

Medusa aequorea [spec. nov.]

M. orbicularis planiuscula, margine inflexo villoso tentaculato. Loefl.

Habitat in Pelago.

Medusa noctu vagatur; vis pruritu mordax; contrahit se rigens ac praeternatante pisciculo frondem suam spargit, complectensque devorat; ora ei in radice esse, excrementa per summa reddi. Plin. IX: 45.

Notes

Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 659, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hormathiidae
Genus
Medusa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Actiniaria
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
aequorea
Taxonomic status
spec. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Medusa aequorea Linnaeus, 1758