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Pelagiidae Gegenbaur 1856

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Family Pelagiidae Gegenbaur, 1856

Scyphomedusae with eight or 16 marginal sense organs (rhopalia); adults with tentacles on umbrella margin located in clefts between the marginal lappets; with gastrovascular space divided by radial septa into separate unbranched stomach pouches; without ring canal; having oral arms elongate and folded (Mayer, 1910; Kramp, 1961; Russell, 1970; Mianzan and Cornelius, 1999).

Notes

Published as part of Morandini, André C., Da, Fábio L., Silveira & Cornelius, Paul F. S., 2006, Redescription of Chrysaora lactea Eschscholtz, 1829 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) from the Brazilian coast, with designation of a neotype, pp. 29-48 in Zootaxa 1135 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171956

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03902B148929D7616A1DF36BF705FCB2

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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.171956 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA9536C892BD7636B15F11DF502FFC4 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03902B148929D7616A1DF36BF705FCB2 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119344907 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/50692/taxon/03902B148929D7616A1DF36BF705FCB2.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Pelagiidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Semaeostomeae
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Gegenbaur
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Pelagiidae Gegenbaur, 1856 sec. Morandini, Da, Silveira & Cornelius, 2006

References

  • Mayer, A. G. (1910) The medusae of the world III. The scyphomedusae. Carnegie Institution, Washington D. C., pp. 499 - 735.
  • Kramp, P. L. (1961) Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 40, 1 - 469.
  • Russell, F. S. (1970) The medusae of the British Isles II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a supplement to the first volume on hydromedusae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 284 pp.
  • Mianzan, H. W. & Cornelius, P. F. S. (1999) Cubomedusae and Scyphomedusae. In: Boltovskoy, D. (Ed.), South Atlantic Zooplankton, Vol. I. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, pp. 513 - 559.