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Tripedalia Conant 1897
Description
Genus Tripedalia Conant 1897
Definition (redefined after Moore 1988 and Bentlage & Lewis 2012): Tripedaliidae with four interradial groups of 2 or 3 unbranched pedalia, each bearing a single tentacle. Rhopalia niche forming a roof without covering scale. Larviparous.
Type species: Tripedalia cystophora Conant 1897, by original designation.
Notes
Published as part of Straehler-Pohl, Ilka, Garm, Anders & Morandini, André C., 2014, Sexual dimorphism in Tripedaliidae (Conant 1897) (Cnidaria, Cubozoa, Carybdeida), pp. 533-549 in Zootaxa 3785 (4) on page 538, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/250280
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Conant
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Cubomedusae
- Family
- Carybdeidae
- Genus
- Tripedalia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tripedalia Conant, 1897 sec. Straehler-Pohl, Garm & Morandini, 2014
References
- Conant, F. S. (1897) Notes on the Cubomedusae. Johns Hopkins University Circulars, 132, 8 - 10.
- Moore, S. J. (1988) A new species of cubomedusan (Cubozoa: Cnidaria) from Northern Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, 5 (1), 1 - 4.
- Bentlage, B. & Lewis, C. (2012) An illustrated key and synopsis of the families and genera of carybdeid box jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida), with emphasis on the " Irukandji family " (Carukiidae). Journal of Natural History, 46 (41 - 42), 2595 - 2620. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2012.717645