Hydromedusae observed during night dives in the Gulf Stream
Author
Schuchert, Peter
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
peter.schuchert@ville-ge.ch
Author
Collins, Richard
880 NE 33 rd Street, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
rc6684@icloud.com
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2021
2021-10-21
128
2
237
356
journal article
3356
10.35929/RSZ.0049
172fa5c5-c0c4-4bd7-b710-d608237b8458
0035-418
5639938
Amphinema turrida
(
Mayer, 1900
)
Figs 3
A-D
Dissonema turrida
Mayer, 1900: 44
, pl. 2 figs 3-4. –
Mayer, 1910: 116
, pl. 10 fig. 1, pl. 22 fig. 1.
Stomotoca turrida
. –
Mayer, 1915: 199
, pl. 1 fig. 1.
Amphinema turrida
. ‒
Schuchert, 2007: 312
, fig. 48.
Examined material:
02-JUL-2018
;
1 specimen
photographed; approximately
6 mm
; not collected
.
Observations:
Amphinema
medusa, approximately
6 mm
high, with elongated, folded gonads that extend along 5/6 of radial canals (
Fig. 3
A-B); manubrium about half the height of the subumbrella, simple cruciform mouth with a few folds; two opposite tentacles, long, hollow, base laterally compressed and clasping bell margin, no abaxial spur, large red abaxial ocellus; about 12 rudimentary bulbs on bell margin, each with a large, red ocellus (
Fig. 3B
). Adradial and interradial rudimentary bulbs bearing a thin cirrus originating in the middle of the bulb (
Fig. 3C
).
Distribution:
Florida and
Bahamas
; Mediterranean; Torres Strait;
Papua New Guinea
;
Japan
; Pacific Side of Mexico;
Chile
(
Schuchert, 2007
).
Type
locality:
USA
,
Florida
, Dry
Tortugas
archipelago.
Remarks:
Amphinema turrida
has recently been redescribed and discussed by
Schuchert (2007)
. Most Pacific populations lack the cirri and their status needs to be re-evaluated using genetic data.