WoRMS taxon details
Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard)
AphiaID: 220491
AphiaID: 220491
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Discomedusae (Subclass) > Rhizostomeae (Order) > Daktyliophorae (Suborder) > Catostylidae (Family) > Catostylus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Catostylus 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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-West Pacific [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Paramacrochiron maximum (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
| |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (65 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (115 nucleotides; 79 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Width to 35 cm. Bell sub-hemispherical, firm to floppy, finely granular and translucent. Mouth-arms neatly conical without clubs or filaments. Generally uniformly greyish-white or delicate blue-green, also reported as bright blue or reddish. Habitat: coastal, often in estuaies. Distribution: W Indian Ocean to W Pacific Ocean, Australia (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220491 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||
| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220491 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |