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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5336.1.1
1175-5326
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Nausithoe picta
Agassiz & Mayer, 1902
(
Fig. 10
)
Nausithoe picta
Agassiz & Mayer, 1902
:
Holotype
not known, possibly not extant.
Material examined:
ZMA2048
(
8 specimens
from
Indonesia
,
Maluku
, no information on depth) and photo from underwater photographer,
Fabien Michenet
(
Tahiti
, depth:
20m
)
.
Diagnosis: medusa—hypodome with transparent umbrella and blue gastric filaments.
Description: Based on original description and
Mayer (1910)
. Medusae
15–22 mm
in diameter; smooth transparent umbrella; marginal lappets as long as wide, with rounded edges; tentacles length equal to bell radius; 4 groups of about 12 blue gastric filaments each; large brown gonads; rhopalia with brown ocellus.
Type locality: Rangiora Island,
French Polynesia
(near surface).
Distribution:
French Polynesia
and Central E Pacific Ocean.
Remarks: The morphology of this species resembles that of
N. clausi
and
N. punctata
, except for the blue gastric filaments, rendering this as the only feature that distinguishes the medusa of
N. picta
.