Cunina peregrina : H. B. Bigelow 1909
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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.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.7909936 (DOI)
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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.