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
8382D1CA-7C0E-4B1C-9591-4CEAA2F296FB
Genus
Orchistoma
Haeckel, 1879
Orchistoma
Haeckel, 1879: 138
;
type
species
Mesonema pileus
Lesson, 1843
(
Kramp, 1961
)
.
Tetracannota
Mayer, 1900: 46
;
type
species
Tetracannota collapsum
Mayer, 1900
by monotypy.
Diagnosis:
Medusa with short manubrium on large gastric peduncle; mouth with 8-30 sinuous or crenulated lips; eight or more radial canals, simple, ramified, or in groups of four. Up to 64 marginal tentacles; no marginal cirri, but with thin, filiform, tentaculiform structures devoid of marginal bulbs; gonads usually on proximal parts of radial canals; numerous adaxial ocelli; without statocysts, without cordyli, without excretory pores or papillae.
Hydroid phase unknown.