Nausithoe hagenbecki Jarms 2001
- 1. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, 05508 - 090, Brazil & School of Environment and Science, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
- 2. National Systematics Laboratory, Office of Science and Technology, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, MRC- 153, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA & Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, MRC- 163, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA
- 3. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, 05508 - 090, Brazil & Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo, Rodovia Manuel Hypólito do Rego km 131.5, São Sebastião, SP, 11612 - 109, Brazil
Description
Nausithoe hagenbecki Jarms, 2001
(Fig. 7: E–H)
Nausithoe hagenbecki Jarms, 2001: 14–18, figs 1–5.
Holotype ZMH C11659.
Material examined: ZMH C11659.
Diagnosis: medusa—hypodome bell with short tentacles and gonads arranged in pairs; polyp—solitary with 16 cusps per whorl and collar surrounded by multiple club-like lips.
Description: Based on original description. Adult medusae 5 mm in diameter, 3.7 mm between rhopalia and 1.6 mm being the flat central disc (hypodome); rhopalia with statolith and a dark red pigmented ocellus; stout and short tentacles (shorter than the lappets); one gastric filament per quadrant (four in total); spherical gonads arranged in pairs situated beneath the coronal groove. Polyp solitary with at least two whorls of 16 cusps; 28.8 mm in total length; soft body with four lobes at the collar and mouth surrounded by four bigger (coming from the gastric septae) and 16 smaller (from the mouth margin) club-like lips; up to 8.2 mm-long slender tentacles.
Type locality: found in the tropical aquarium of the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
Distribution: Unknown, not yet found in the wild.
Remarks: The polyp’s soft body morphology in this species is remarkably different from other animals of the genus, with four lobes at the collar and mouth surrounded by four bigger and 16 smaller club-like lips. The shape and positioning of the gonads, arranged in pairs, are the most distinctive characteristics of the medusae.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZMH
- Family
- Nausithoidae
- Genus
- Nausithoe
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- C11659
- Order
- Coronatae
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Jarms
- Species
- hagenbecki
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nausithoe hagenbecki Jarms, 2001 sec. Molinari, Collins & Morandini, 2023
References
- Jarms, G. (2001) The life cycle of Nausithoe hagenbecki sp. nov. (Scyphozoa, Coronatae). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 98, 13 - 22.
- Russell, F. S. (1970) Nausithoeidae. In: Russell, F. S. (Ed.), The Medusae of the British Isles II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a Supplement to the First Volume on Hydromedusae. Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 29 - 37.