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WoRMS taxon details

Mastigias papua (Lesson) 
AphiaID: 220485

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Discomedusae (Subclass) > Rhizostomeae (Order) > Kolpophorae (Suborder) > Mastigiidae (Family) > Mastigias (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Mastigias Agassiz, 1862
Sources  basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: F.S. Cornelius and J. van der Land (eds), updates 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English golden medusa  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Funzi Island [details]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
Msambweni Reef [details]
Red Sea [details]
Western South Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Description: Width to 10 cm. Conspicuous. Eight thick mouth-arms with long terminal clubs, which may detach. Bell transparent when young, later translucent dark bluish-green or pale brown, with scattered pale patches. Swims incessantly and often swarms. Habitat: coastal waters. Distribution: W Indian Ocean, Red Sea to W Pacific Ocean, N Australia, also SW Atlantic (Richmond, 1997). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220485
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-09-29 09:12:31Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Mastigias papua (Lesson). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220485 on 2013-05-25
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