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Gastroblasta Keller 1883
Authors/Creators
- 1. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
- 2. 880 NE 33 rd Street, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Description
Genus Gastroblasta Keller, 1883
Gastroblasta Keller, 1883: 622;
type species Gastroblasta timida Keller, 1883 by monotypy.
Diagnosis: Medusa when mature with more than one urn-shaped manubrium; up to 20 radial- and as many centripetal canals, some radial canals may be branched; marginal tentacles with bulbs; numerous statocysts, oval gonads developing near the middle of radial canals or also centripetal canals.
Hydroid like in genus Clytia, living embedded in sponges (Gravili et al., 2007).
Notes
Published as part of Schuchert, Peter & Collins, Richard, 2021, Hydromedusae observed during night dives in the Gulf Stream, pp. 237-356 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (2) on page 314, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0049, http://zenodo.org/record/5639938
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Keller
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Family
- Campanulariidae
- Genus
- Gastroblasta
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gastroblasta Keller, 1883 sec. Schuchert & Collins, 2021
References
- Keller C. 1883. Untersuchungen uber neue Medusen aus dem Rothen Meere. Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie 38: 621 - 670.
- Gravili C., Bouillon J., D'elia A., Boero F. 2007. The life cycle of Gastroblasta raffaelei (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae, Campanulariidae) and a review of the genus Gastroblasta. Italian Journal of Zoology 74 (4): 395 - 403.