A morphological review of the jellyfish genus Nausithoe Kölliker, 1853 (Nausithoideae, Coronatae, Scyphozoa, Cnidaria)
Author
Molinari, Clarissa G.
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
Author
Collins, Allen G.
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
Author
Morandini, André C.
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
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-21
5336
1
1
32
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5336.1.1
1175-5326
98F89833-1EBB-41A6-B943-2091F2296D40
Nausithoe albatrossi
(
Maas, 1897
)
Nauphanta albatrossi
Maas, 1897: 83
, pl. XIV.
Nausithoe albatrossi
—
Vanĥffen, 1902: 29.
Holotype
not known, possibly not extant.
Material examined: None.
Diagnosis: medusa—isodome bell with gastric filaments organized in 16 clusters of 5 filaments each.
Description: Based on
Maas (1897)
,
Bigelow (1928)
,
Mayer (1910)
, and
Kramp (1961)
. Adult medusa
35 to 40 mm
in diameter and
35 mm
high; narrow and elongate lappets, with rounded ends; smooth central disc; gonads oblong; gastric filaments organized in 16 clusters of 5 filaments (4 clusters per quadrant, a total of 80 filaments). No information about the rhopalia. No information about a polyp stage.
Type locality: Gulf of
Panama
(no information on depth).
Distribution: Pacific coast of South America.
Remarks: The organization of gastric filaments is not seen in any other species of the genus.