Aequorea globosa Eschscholtz, 1829

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 51-52

Aequorea globosa Eschscholtz, 1829

Aequorea globosa: Eschscholtz 1829: 110 , pl. 10, fig. 2; Kramp 1961: 206; 1968: 99, fig. 271.

Description: Four specimens from three stations. Umbrella hemispherical, broader than wide, without apical projection; up to 6.4 mm in diameter. Exumbrella surface smooth, without rows of gelatinous papillae. Mesoglea thick, lens-like central disk.Velum narrow. Peripheral canal and up to 40 radial canals present, latter narrow, with smooth margin and unbranched; without centripetal canals. With up to 40 perradial tentacles connected to peripheral canal, arising from conspicuous, slightly conical bulbs on umbrella margin. Tentacles of similar size, long, hollow, unbranched, filiform. Up to 80 small rudimentary bulbs present at umbrella margin. All marginal bulbs with neither keel nor excretory papillae. Lateral and marginal cirri absent. Manubrium up to 1/2 umbrella width, broad and flat, not extending to velum, not connected to radial canals by mesenteries. Mouth simple, circular, with credulated lips; gastric peduncle absent. Statocysts closed, twice as numerous as marginal bulbs. Without ocelli. Gonads extending almost entire length of radial canals, essentially linear, may be sinuous, closer to margin than stomach.

Material examined: H5074.

Comments: see A. forskalea .

Distribution: Coastal waters of tropical and temperate Indo-West Pacific. This is the first record from the west Indian Ocean. Neritic.