WoRMS name detailsAtorella octogonus Mills, Larson & Young, 1987
287151 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:287151)
unaccepted (wrong spelling)
Species
marine,
recent only
(of Atorella octogonos Mills, Larson & Youngbluth, 1987) Mills, C. E.; Larson, R. J.; Youngbluth, M. J. (1987). A new species of coronate scyphomedusa from the Bahamas, Atorella octogonos. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 40: 423-427., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1987/00000040/00000003/art00002?crawler=true
page(s): 424-425; note: Holotype description: Medusa 20 mm in bell diameter and 14 mm in bell height, with a deep coronal groove. Central disc with thick jelly, subspherical, flattened in the oral-aboral plane. Exumbrella (b... Holotype description: Medusa 20 mm in bell diameter and 14 mm in bell height, with a deep coronal groove. Central disc with thick jelly, subspherical, flattened in the oral-aboral plane. Exumbrella (both central disc and pedaliar region) densely sprinkled with numerous nematocyst warts, each about 0.1 mm diameter. Rhopalia six, in deep niches between lappets; lappets 12, rounded,
broader than long. Tentacles six, each longer than the bell diameter in life, but shorter than bell diameter in fixed material, each with an opaque capitate tip densely covered with nematocysts. Coronal muscles weakly developed. Mouth short, circular, not obviously cruciform. Stomach with four groups of gastric cirri, each group arising from a gelatinous stalk bearing 20-30 filaments. Gonads eight, fusiform (0.5 mm x 2.0 mm), conduplicate axially, arranged in four near-interradial pairs, each pair abaxial to a group of gastric cirri. Gonads cream-tan, medusa otherwise colorless and transparent, and bearing no zooxanthellae.
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Collins, A.G.; Morandini, A.C.; Cartwright, P. (2025). World List of Scyphozoa. Atorella octogonus Mills, Larson & Young, 1987. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287151 on 2025-05-10
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(of Atorella octogonos Mills, Larson & Youngbluth, 1987) Mills, C. E.; Larson, R. J.; Youngbluth, M. J. (1987). A new species of coronate scyphomedusa from the Bahamas, Atorella octogonos. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 40: 423-427., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1987/00000040/00000003/art00002?crawler=true
page(s): 424-425; note: Holotype description: Medusa 20 mm in bell diameter and 14 mm in bell height, with a deep coronal groove. Central disc with thick jelly, subspherical, flattened in the oral-aboral plane. Exumbrella (b... Holotype description: Medusa 20 mm in bell diameter and 14 mm in bell height, with a deep coronal groove. Central disc with thick jelly, subspherical, flattened in the oral-aboral plane. Exumbrella (both central disc and pedaliar region) densely sprinkled with numerous nematocyst warts, each about 0.1 mm diameter. Rhopalia six, in deep niches between lappets; lappets 12, rounded,
broader than long. Tentacles six, each longer than the bell diameter in life, but shorter than bell diameter in fixed material, each with an opaque capitate tip densely covered with nematocysts. Coronal muscles weakly developed. Mouth short, circular, not obviously cruciform. Stomach with four groups of gastric cirri, each group arising from a gelatinous stalk bearing 20-30 filaments. Gonads eight, fusiform (0.5 mm x 2.0 mm), conduplicate axially, arranged in four near-interradial pairs, each pair abaxial to a group of gastric cirri. Gonads cream-tan, medusa otherwise colorless and transparent, and bearing no zooxanthellae.
[request]basis of record 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]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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