Nubiella mitra Bouillon, 1980

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 39

Nubiella mitra Bouillon, 1980

Nubiella mitra: Bouillon 1980: 314 , fig. 4; Goy et al. 1991: 109, fig. 22.

Description: Single immature specimen. Mitre-shaped umbrella, taller than broad; 1.5 mm in height. Exumbrella surface smooth. Mesoglea relatively firm, especially thick in apical cone. Velum narrow. Peripheral canal and four radial canals present; no centripetal canals. Four solitary marginal tentacles, each arising from small, almost spherical bulb at umbrella margin. Tentacles long, solid, filiform. Secondary tentacles absent. Manubrium flask-shaped, cylindrical, short, not reaching to level of velum. Mouth simple, circular, with short gastric peduncle; bearing four oral tentacles above mouth rim. Oral tentacles unbranched, small, with terminal cnidocyst clusters. Without statocysts. Without ocelli.When mature, gonads simple, smooth, completely surrounding manubrium proximally.

Material examined: H5012.

Comments: This is the only species in this genus.

Distribution: New Guinea and eastern Mediterranean Sea. First record from the west Indian Ocean.