WoRMS taxon details
original description
Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. & Seghers, G. (1991). Notes additionelles sur les méduses de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) IV. Additional notes on the medusae of Papua New Guinea (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): IV. <em>Cah. Biol. mar.</em> 32(3): 387-411. page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
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Diagnosis
Medusa with eight simple radial canals; eight normal marginal tentacles and16-32 short, club-shaped tentaculae, all marginal structures with black pigmented spots; manubrium short; mouth with eight simple lips; no gastric peduncle and excretory papillae; gonads along radial canals, split into two lateral halves; with numerous statocysts; no ocelli; no cirri. Hydroid phase unknown. [details]
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