Cnidocodon leopoldi Bouillon, 1978

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 48

Cnidocodon leopoldi Bouillon, 1978

Cnidocodon leopoldi: Bouillon, 1978 a: 255 , fig. 4.

Description: Three specimens from three stations. Rounded umbrella, slightly taller than broad, without apical projection; up to 1.3 mm in height. Exumbrella surface smooth, without cnidocyst tracks, but with scattered cnidocysts. Mesoglea thick. Velum narrow. Peripheral canal and four narrow radial canals present, latter with smooth margin; without centripetal or apical canals. With four perradial marginal tentacles arising from conspicuous bulbs on umbrella margin; marginal bulbs swollen adaxially. Tentacles similar, of equal length, short, stout, hollow, divided into 3–5 short capitate branches. Manubrium as inverted gourd, with broad circular base, not extending beyond velum, not connected to radial canals by mesenteries. Mouth simple, circular, may be cylindrical, without lips; without gastric peduncle. Without ocelli on bulb of marginal tentacles. Gonads entirely encircling manubrium, though most oral part free, smooth.

Material examined: H5039.

Comments: This is the only species in this genus.

Distribution: New Guinea. This is the first record from the west Indian Ocean. Neritic.