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<paragraph blockId="61.[832,1437,257,1180]" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">The formalin samples are mostly strongly fragmented and damaged.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[832,960,1204,1228]" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Taxonomy:</emphasis>
In order to avoid a secondary homonymy with
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<emphasis box="[888,1077,1236,1259]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Aequorea cyanea</emphasis>
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, we propose here the replacement name
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<emphasis box="[1157,1390,1268,1291]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Aequorea neocyanea</emphasis>
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for
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<emphasis box="[832,1064,1300,1324]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Zygodactyla cyanea</emphasis>
L.
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.
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<emphasis box="[1323,1436,1301,1324]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Zygonema</emphasis>
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is a synonym of
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<emphasis box="[1216,1320,1332,1355]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Aequorea</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Peron &amp; Lesueur" firstAuthor="Peron" pageId="61" pageNumber="297" pagination="325 - 366" refId="ref73347" refString="Peron F., Lesueur C. A. 1810. Tableau des caracteres generiques et specifiques de toutes les especes de meduses connues jusqu'a ce jour. Annales du Museum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris 14: 325 - 366. https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3498981" type="journal article" year="1810">Péron &amp; Lesueur, 1810</bibRefCitation>
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(
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) and Agassiz
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<emphasis box="[1328,1436,1365,1388]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Z. cyanea</emphasis>
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must be transferred to
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<emphasis box="[1071,1174,1396,1419]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Aequorea</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[832,993,1443,1467]" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Observations:</emphasis>
Typical
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<emphasis box="[1100,1204,1444,1467]" italics="true" pageId="61" pageNumber="297">Aequorea</emphasis>
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medusae, diameters of animals with well developed gonads
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, sizes of animals without gonads (juveniles) up to
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. Umbrella in fully grown animals relatively flat (
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), about 1/4 of diameter, in younger ones more spherical. Stomach large, diameter 1/2 of bell diameter, with shallow jelly cone inside. Mouth rim with short fimbriae only (
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), same number as radial canals, continued centrifugally as fine rib or streak on stomach and then as radial canal. Radial canals in mature animals 25 to 100, more commonly 60 to 80, lower number might also be due to regeneration from fragments. A few (2-4) incomplete radial canals growing centrifugally can be present, also irregularities like fusions or branching, but these likely of traumatic origin. Gonads along radial canals, spanning from almost the beginning to a short distance from circular canal (
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A-B), bilamellar, when fully developed large and hanging into subumbrella like a curtain, walls much folded or undulated (
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). Fully formed tentacles 21 to 50, additionally some small ones or mere bulbs that will likely later also develop into tentacles. Observed ratios of radial canals to fully formed tentacles 1.0-3.0. Tentacles in life nearly always with a swollen base (
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) degree of swelling is apparently modifiable and could depend on environment or physiological state as once the animal is preserved the swelling is much reduced (
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). Regularly there is a faint abaxial keel, often emphasized or feigned by a whitish line on median of abaxial side (
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) caused by an accumulation of nematocysts, this line only visible in living animals. In swollen bulbs abaxial side or keel often elongated into abaxial spur (
<figureCitation box="[651,727,646,670]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="63.[151,186,1939,1961]" captionTargetBox="[174,1413,257,1890]" captionTargetId="figure-4@63.[174,1413,257,1890]" captionTargetPageId="63" captionText="Fig. 38. Aequorea neocyanea new name. (A-C) BFLA4085, bell diameter 60 mm. (A) Oblique view from below. (B) Aboral view. (C) Bell margin with tentacles and their bulbs. (D) BFLA4083, bell diameter 42 mm, young animal with beginning gonad development. (E) BFLA4043, bell margin. (F) BFLA4236, bell margin, the green dots are not a pigment but likely due interference effects. (G) BFLA4236, mouth region with short fimbria. (H) BFLA3783, bell margin. (I) BFLA3783, tentacles after fixation in formalin." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5640044" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5640044/files/figure.png" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Fig. 38</figureCitation>
A- D), in preserved material much less visible or absent. Excretory papillae absent, excretory pores could not be found reliably in the preserved material. Four or more statocysts (up to 14) between two tentacles or bulbs, 2-3 statoliths per statocyst. Colours: unpigmented, very well grown specimens with a pink hue.
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Fig. 37. 16S maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of the genus
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and related genera obtained with PhyML (GTR+G+I model) using about 600 bp positions of the mitochondrial 16S gene. Node-support values are bootstrap values of 100 pseudoreplicates (shown only if&gt; 70%). Sequence labels start with the GenBank numbers (except for identical haplotypes) permitting the retrieval of more information. Red labels are new sequences from this study, for the taxa in bold either a voucher specimen or photos of it have been examined. Notes: *1) Unpublished, L. Leclère, pers. comm. *2) See Material &amp; Methods. *3) Could be a misidentification. *4) Unpublished, A. Hosia &amp; L. Martell, pers. comm., see Fig. 39A.
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Fig. 38.
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new name. (A-C) BFLA4085, bell diameter 60 mm. (A) Oblique view from below. (B) Aboral view. (C) Bell margin with tentacles and their bulbs. (D) BFLA4083, bell diameter 42 mm, young animal with beginning gonad development. (E) BFLA4043, bell margin. (F) BFLA4236, bell margin, the green dots are not a pigment but likely due interference effects. (G) BFLA4236, mouth region with short fimbria. (H) BFLA3783, bell margin. (I) BFLA3783, tentacles after fixation in formalin.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,273,888,912]" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">16S data:</emphasis>
The eight haplotypes had a range of divergences of 0.3-2.1 % (
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, intrapopulation variation). A maximum likelihood tree of the partial 16S sequence (
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) yielded a diverse but welldefined clade for this species. Its sister clade comprises two samples from the Mediterranean diverging in 3.7- 5.2% of their aligned bases (see discussion below). No relationship to
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<emphasis box="[321,456,1115,1139]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">A. forskalea</emphasis>
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nor to
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<emphasis box="[546,727,1115,1139]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">A. macrodactyla</emphasis>
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is evident though.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,301,1195,1219]" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Distribution:</emphasis>
Florida,
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, perhaps also
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and even Mediterranean (see below).
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locality: Atlantic Ocean,
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,
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, Key West.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,264,1308,1332]" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Remarks:</emphasis>
We think that the present material most likely belongs to the same species identified by
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,
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) as
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,
</emphasis>
although there are some differences.
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<emphasis box="[286,504,1405,1429]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Zygodactyla cyanea</emphasis>
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was first described by L.
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based on animals from Key West, Florida. His brief description was later expanded (A.
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) and a figure of a fully-grown animal provided.
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reported it in great numbers along the Florida Reef.
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,
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) then added more details using material from Florida and
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, notably also figures of the tentacle bulbs and of younger stages. As Mayer was a collaborator of A. Agassiz, his identification was certainly discussed with the latter. In his 1910 monograph, Mayer then synonymized
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<emphasis box="[302,409,1762,1785]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Z. cyanea</emphasis>
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with
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<emphasis box="[474,684,1761,1785]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Aequorea forskalea</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Peron &amp; Lesueur" firstAuthor="Peron" pageId="64" pageNumber="300" pagination="325 - 366" refId="ref73347" refString="Peron F., Lesueur C. A. 1810. Tableau des caracteres generiques et specifiques de toutes les especes de meduses connues jusqu'a ce jour. Annales du Museum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris 14: 325 - 366. https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3498981" type="journal article" year="1810">Péron &amp; Lesueur, 1810</bibRefCitation>
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without further discussion.
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Our material matches more
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<emphasis box="[460,567,1827,1850]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Z. cyanea</emphasis>
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of
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,
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) and not
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<emphasis box="[306,435,1859,1883]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">A. forskalea</emphasis>
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for the following reasons:
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1) Mayer found it as very common off the coast of
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and in our study it was likewise a frequent medusa.
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Fig. 39.
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.
</emphasis>
(A) Living medusa from Norway, bell margin seen from oral side. Photo courtesy of Luis Martell, sample HYPNO 772. (B) Preserved sample from the Mediterranean, MHNG-INVE-0055261.
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2) The
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locality is in the same region and connected by the
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stream.
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3) Mayer describes and depicts the tentacle bulbs with an abaxial spur, but incorrectly identified it as an exumbrellar excretory papilla (which is unknown in hydromedusae). This corresponds to the bulbs we found (
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), although this trait is not a unique diagnostic feature for the species as it occurs also in
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<emphasis box="[905,997,418,441]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Aequora</emphasis>
spec. 1
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(see below) and others, e.g.
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<emphasis box="[869,983,449,473]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">A. krampi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis box="[1185,1401,449,473]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Aequorea forskalea</emphasis>
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in current understanding has evenly tapering, not much swollen tentacle bases (
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).
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4) The mature animals examined genetically had diameters of
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, a stomach width of 1/2 the bell diameter, and up to 100 radial canals, thus matching Agassiz and Mayers values.
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There are also traits that do not match. Notably our maximum tentacle number was about 50 and the ratio of radial canals to tentacles usually in the region of 2. Mayer gives up to 100 tentacles and a ratio of 1. These traits are known to be very variable in this genus and should be used with caution to separate species. Moreover, we found that
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<emphasis box="[882,985,866,889]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Aequorea</emphasis>
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medusae often get fragmented and then reconstituted themselves. This vegetative reproduction via fission could account for much of the variation seen in the
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<emphasis box="[898,1001,962,985]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">Aequorea</emphasis>
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(see
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).
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Contrary to
<bibRefCitation author="Mayer" box="[983,1144,994,1018]" firstAuthor="Mayer" pageId="64" pageNumber="300" pagination="1 - 76" refId="ref71665" refString="Mayer A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I &amp; II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington, pp. 735, plates 1 - 76." type="journal article" year="1910">Mayer (1910)</bibRefCitation>
, we think that Agassiz medusa should be kept distinct from
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<emphasis box="[1246,1378,1025,1049]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="300">A. forskalea</emphasis>
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. The 16S sequences of our material were different from
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<emphasis box="[151,282,257,281]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="301">A. forskalea</emphasis>
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of the NE Atlantic (
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), the bell sizes were smaller than for typical
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, and tentacles bases are usually swollen and may have an abaxial keel and spur.
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The name
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<emphasis box="[267,477,387,411]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="301">Aequorea forskalea</emphasis>
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was introduced by
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to replace the preoccupied name
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and they formally also restricted the
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locality to the Mediterranean Sea.
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provided a good illustration of his medusa which he had seen in the NE Atlantic or the Mediterranean and which we must assume to represent the
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specimen. Forsskåls medusa was quite large with a diameter of
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[in his Latin description he states “
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”, a spithame being an ancient Greek/Byzantine length unit corresponding to
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]. Our current scope of the species was outlined by
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and
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who give sizes of up to
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and 60-80 radial canals. The bases of the tentacles are almost invariably given as evenly tapering and not swollen (
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, see also
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: fig. 234b). This is clearly different to the ones observed here (
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) but some cautionary remarks are necessary. The degree of inflation of the tentacle base, the keel formation, and the abaxial spur seem to be variable and a partly transient feature. The swelling depends perhaps on the activity of the animal, the osmotic situation, or the digestive cycle. In preserved animals it is much less pronounced (
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), but still apparently different from
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.
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The status of the closely related Mediterranean
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samples (
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,
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and
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, see Material &amp; Methods) is not clear. They were immature and
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in size and their tentacle bases resembled the ones shown in
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and not
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. It could be that they also belong to the present species. The
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of the Mediterranean also differentiate into two morphotypes when examined alive (unpublished observations): one with slender, evenly tapering tentacles as shown in
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and another with much swollen bases of the bulbs resembling the ones shown in
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A-B.
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The Brazilian medusae identified as
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by
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Nogueira
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. (2016)
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do not match well the latter species (see
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;
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) but conform much better with the scope of
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as documented here.
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The status of the Mediterranean
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morphotypes as well as many other populations should be examined using genetic techniques.
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