Nomenclature
original description
Maas, O. 1897. Die Medusen. 21st Reports on an exploration off the West Coast of Mexico, Central and South America and of the Galapagos Islands, in charge of A. Agassiz by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" during 1891. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 23: 1-92, pls 1-15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15911599
page(s): 15 [details] 
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 Bougainvillidae with eight bipartite tentacle bulbs, so that the tentacles arise from 16 epaule-shaped marginal swellings; oral tentacles dichotomously branched (Kramp, 1968). [details]
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