Eutima mira McCrady, 1859

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 58-59

Eutima mira McCrady, 1859

Eutima mira: McCrady 1859: 190 , pl. 11, figs 8, 9; Kramp 1959: 161, fig. 222; 1961: 198.

Description: Three specimens from single station. Dome-shaped umbrella, as broad as tall, without apical projection; up to 3.8 mm in diameter. Exumbrella surface smooth. Mesoglea thick, thinning to margin. 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 four tentacles connected to peripheral canal, arising from slightly swollen, linear bulbs on umbrella margin. Tentacles long, hollow, unbranched, filiform. With up to 100 small, atentaculate marginal swellings or warts. All marginal bulbs and warts without keel, and with neither excretory papillae nor excretory pores; lateral cirri present. Manubrium short, flask-shaped, not connected to radial canals by mesenteries. Mouth simple, quadrate, with four recurved, slightly crenulated lips. Gastric peduncle very pronounced, slender, tapering, twice as long as umbrella width. Statocysts closed, eight in number (two per quadrant). 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: H5058.

Comments: see E.? commensalis .

Distribution: Widespread but scattered in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Previously collected off the Seychelles archipelagos (Bouillon 1978 b). Neritic.