Two new jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from tropical Australian waters
Author
Gershwin, Lisa-Ann
Author
Zeidler, Wolfgang
text
Zootaxa
2008
1764
41
52
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.181987
881d2e23-0aa0-436c-9703-42b94facf098
1175-5326
181987
Key to the species of
Netrostoma
:
1a. Warts or papillae projecting from top or sides of central dome...................................................................2
1b. Warts or papillae lacking; central dome knob-like; with 7 rounded velar lappets and 2 pointed rhopaliar lappets per octant; lacking appendages between the mouths; colorless to whitish in life [Northern QLD,
Australia
]
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Netrostoma nuda
2a. Top of dome covered with warts or papillae................................................................................................3
2b. Top of central dome smooth, with papillae projecting from sides in two whorls, the upper whorl with 8 large conical papillae, and the lower whorl with about 12 smaller papillae; 9 short lappets per octant; lacking mouth-arm filaments [
Fiji
]
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N. dumokuroa
3a. Central dome completely covered by about 50 or more warts or papillae ..................................................4
3b. Central dome with 10 wart-like projections; 6–8 rounded lappets per octant; with two
types
of appendages between the mouths: one thin and tubular, the other spindle-shaped [Malay Archipelago]
N. coerulescens
4a. About 50 or more solid, pointed projections covering central dome; 6–8 flatly rounded velar lappets per octant; with numerous small, short appendages among the frilled mouths [
Japan
] ............
N. setouchiana
4b. About 80 rounded warts covering central dome; 8 rounded or cleft velar lappets per octant, ocular lappets sharp-pointed; filaments only on arm disk, small and spindle-shaped [Malay Archipelago] ......................
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N. typhlodendrium