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Cunina peregrina : H. B. Bigelow 1909

Description

Cunina peregrina H.B. Bigelow, 1909

Cunina peregrina: H.B. Bigelow 1909: 59, pl.1, fig. 6, pl.15, figs 1, 2, pl. 28, figs 1, 7, pl. 45, fig. 8; Kramp 1961: 283; 1968: 129, fig. 348.

Description: Three specimens from two stations. Hemispherical umbrella, slightly broader than tall, up to 9 mm in diameter. Exumbrella surface smooth. Mesoglea thickened dorsally. Velum broad. 12 equally-well developed peronia; 12 broad marginal lappets, short, square. 12 tentacles arising from within mesoglea, at centre of each gastric pouch, short, solid and characteristically banded. Without secondary tentacles on umbrella margin. Mouth simple, circular. 12 quadrangular gastric pouches, not extending beyond level of tentacles ventrad. Peripheral canal absent. 4–10 statocysts per marginal lappet; otoporpae present, narrow, linear. Gonads associated with gastric pouches.

Material examined: H4984.

Comments: see C. globosa.

Distribution:World-wide in tropical and subtropical waters. Previously collected around the Seychelles (Bouillon 1978 b) and off south-east Africa and in the Mozambique Channel (Kramp 1957 a). Epipelagic.

Notes

Published as part of Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, pp. 27-69 in African Invertebrates 46 on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909936

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
: H. B. Bigelow
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Narcomedusae
Family
Cuninidae
Genus
Cunina
Species
peregrina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cunina peregrina Bigelow, 1909 sec. Buecher, Goy, J & Gibbons, 2005

References

  • BIGELOW, R. P. 1909. A new Narcomedusa from the North Atlantic. Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 16: 80 - 82.