Aglaura hemistoma Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 35-36

Aglaura hemistoma Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Aglaura hemistoma: Péron & Lesueur 1810: 351 ; Kramp 1961: 251; 1968: 121, fig. 331.

Description: 2455 specimens from 99 stations. Conical umbrella, flattened at apex, taller than broad; up to 4 mm in height. Exumbrella surface smooth. Mesoglea thin. Velum broad. Peripheral canal and eight radial canals present; no centripetal canals between radial canals. With up to 85 tentacles, each arising from umbrella margin, small, of equal length, hollow. Mouth with four simple lips; on slender, conical gastric peduncle, that is shorter than umbrella depth. Eight statocysts present. Eight gonads, sausage-shaped, hanging from gastric peduncle above level of stomach.

Material examined: H4997, H4998, H4999.

Comments: This is the only species in this genus.

Distribution: World-wide between 40°S and 40°N. Previously caught off the Chagos Archipelago (Browne 1916) and Mozambique (Bouillon 1978 b). Epipelagic.