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 thieli
Jarms, 1990
(
Fig. 16
: C–D)
Nausithoe thieli
Jarms, 1990: 17–21
, figs 8–11, pl. IV.
Holotype
ZMH
C11532
.
Material examined: None.
Diagnosis: ephyra—transparent with 4 small buds of gastric filaments; polyp—solitary with 2, 4 and 8 cusps per whorl.
Description: Based on original description. Polyp solitary;
19.58 mm
in total length; 2, 4 and 8 cusps per whorl (number increases from base to aperture of tube) and maximum of 7 whorls; smooth cusps;
0.5 mm
in diameter at basal disc;
0.08 mm
in diameter above the basal disc; 30–40 tentacles; 20 ephyrae per strobilation. Newly released ephyra transparent;
2 mm
diameter;
0.7 mm
of this the central disc; rhopalia with statocyst and ocelli; 4 small buds of gastric filaments. Adult medusa unknown.
Type locality:
Central
Red Sea
(
763m
depth
)
.
Distribution: Only known from
type
locality.
Remarks: Cultivation of ephyrae into mature medusae not yet successful.