WoRMS taxon details
Crambionella orsini (Vanhoffen)
AphiaID: 220493
AphiaID: 220493
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Discomedusae (Subclass) > Rhizostomeae (Order) > Daktyliophorae (Suborder) > Catostylidae (Family) > Crambionella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Crambionella Stiasny, 1921 | |||||||||||||
| 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 | Funzi Island [details] Indian Ocean [details] Msambweni Reef [details] Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Width to 20 cm. Bell slightly pointed, robust and smooth, edged with a skirt furrowed between the fused lappets. Mouth-artms tripartite with a short proximal portion, mouthlets situated on the central portion, and a prominent smooth, triangular, rounded terminal portion; no filaments. Bell varies from chocolate-coloured through yellowish-brown to milky yellow, with purple-brown blotches especially peripherally. Habitat: coastal, sometimes in estuaries. Distribution: W Indian Ocean, Arabian Gulf to India. C. stuhlmanni (Chun) and C. annandalei Rao, are conspecific (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220493 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Crambionella orsini (Vanhoffen). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220493 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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