Unmasking Aurelia species in the Mediterranean Sea: an integrative morphometric and molecular approach
Author
Scorrano, Simonetta
Author
Aglieri, Giorgio
Author
Boero, Ferdinando
Author
Dawson, Michael N.
Author
Piraino, Stefano
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2017
2016-10-21
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12494
journal article
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10.1111/zoj.12494
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0024-4082
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GENUS
AURELIA
LAMARCK, 1816
Diagnosis:
Ulmaridae
with small marginal tentacles, and lappet-like structures arising from exumbrella slightly above umbrella margin. Umbrella margin divided by eight or 16 marginal clefts; four unbranched oral arms; anastomoses between a few or all of the radial canal branches.
Type
species:
Aurelia aurita
(Linnaeus, 1758)
.