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Plotocnide incerta

Description

Plotocnide incerta (Linko, 1900)

(Syndiction ?) incertum: Linko 1900: 151, fig. 1.

Plotocnide incerta: Kramp 1959 a: 91, fig. 46; 1961: 45.

Description: Single specimen. Bell-shaped umbrella, slightly taller than broad, with indistinct apical projection, broad, rounded; 1.5 mm in height. Exumbrella surface smooth, with irregularly scattered cnidocysts. Mesoglea thick. Velum broad. Peripheral canal and four narrow radial canals present, latter with smooth margin; with neither centripetal nor apical canals. With four perradial marginal tentacles arising from conspicuous bulbs on umbrella margin. Tentacles of similar size, short, typically coiled, solid, unbranched, filiform. Manubrium flask-shaped, occasionally extending beyond velum, not connected to radial canals by mesenteries. Mouth simple, circular, without lips; on pronounced gastric peduncle. Without ocelli on bulb of marginal tentacles. Gonads simple, entirely encircling manubrium for much of length.

Material examined: H5045.

Comments: The systematic position of this genus is unresolved, and the generic identity of this particular species is still questioned (Bouillon & Boero 2000 b). Unfortunately, the single specimen collected here cannot contribute to the debate.

Distribution: Boreal cold temperate and polar waters of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This is the first record from the Indian Ocean and the southern Hemisphere. Neritic.

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 page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7909936

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linko
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Anthoathecata
Family
Boreohydridae
Genus
Plotocnide
Species
incerta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Plotocnide incerta (Linko, 1900) sec. Buecher, Goy, J & Gibbons, 2005

References

  • LINKO, A. 1900. Observations sur les Meduses de la Mer Blanche. Trudy Imperatorskago Sankt- Peterburgskago Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei 29: 137 - 156.