Carybdea, Peron & Lesueur, 1810

Acevedo, Melissa J., Straehler-Pohl, Ilka, Morandini, André C., Stampar, Sergio N., Bentlage, Bastian, Matsumoto, George I., Yanagihara, Angel, Toshino, Sho, Bordehore, César & Fuentes, Verónica L., 2019, Revision of the genus Carybdea (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeidae): clarifying the identity of its type species Carybdea marsupialis, Zootaxa 4543 (4), pp. 515-548 : 539

Comparison of Carybdea specimens from different populations worldwide

We have confirmed the identity of the 8 valid species of the genus Carybdea and developed an identification key to facilitate future species-level identification. Differences in the structure and number of velarial canals, the structure of the pedalial canal knee bends and the shape and composition of the gastric phacellae were observed and form the basis of the identification key presented here ( Table 4). The presence or absence of velarial warts could be an artefact due to preservation, so we do not consider this as a genuine character of the species. There was an error noted in Straehler-Pohl et al. (2017)— C. branchi was described to possess 3 velarial canal roots per octant. Thorough additional inspections revealed and confirmed the results of Gershwin & Gibbons (2009) that C. branchi possesses only 2 velarial canals per octant. Here within, we correct the error by Straehler-Pohl et al. (2017) with the following identification key.