Eutima levuka ( Agassiz & Mayer, 1899 )

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 58

Eutima levuka ( Agassiz & Mayer, 1899)

Eutimeta levuka: Agassiz & Mayer 1899: 163 , pl. 9, figs 30, 31.

Eutima levuka: Kramp 1961: 197 ; 1968: 95, fig. 257.

Description: Eight specimens from five stations. Umbrella as flattened hemisphere, slightly broader than tall, without apical projection; up to 9 mm in diameter. Exumbrella surface smooth. Mesoglea thin. Velum narrow. Peripheral canal and four radial canals present; radial canals narrow, with smooth margin, unbranched, extending from umbrella margin across underside of bell and along gastric peduncle to manubrium; without centripetal canals. With eight tentacles connected to peripheral canal, arising from slightly swollen, linear bulbs on umbrella margin. Tentacles long, hollow, unbranched, filiform, characteristically banded. With more than 80 small, atentaculate marginal swellings or warts.All marginal bulbs and warts without keel and with neither excretory pores nor excretory papillae; lateral cirri present. Manubrium short, flask-shaped, not connected to radial canals by mesenteries. Mouth simple, with four short, slightly crenulated and recurved lips. Gastric peduncle pronounced, longer than bell diameter, with narrow base, tapering distally. Statocysts closed, eight in number (one between each tentacle). Without ocelli. With eight gonads; linear, may be sinuous, four on gastric peduncle, and four extending from gastric peduncle along much of length of subumbrella surface of radial canals.

Material examined: H5072.

Comments: see E.? commensalis .

Distribution: Widespread in tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean. Previously reported from the coast of south-east Africa (Kramp 1965; Millard 1975) and in the Mozambique Channel (Bouillon 1978 b). Neritic.