Chiropsoides buitendijki van der Horst, 1907

Aspe, Nonillon M. & James, Samuel W., 2017, Pheretima monotheca, Zoological Studies 55 (35), pp. 1-19 : 6

Chiropsoides buitendijki van der Horst, 1907

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Class: Cubozoa (Werner 1975)

Family: Chirodropidae ( Haeckel 1882)

Genus: Chiropsoides

Description: The exumbrella is cuboid with rounded edges. The species has gastric saccules and four rhopalia at the side of the bell. Each pedalium has five or six fingers or tentacles. The gastric saccules are finger-shaped and of similar length as the depth of the bell cavity ( Kramp 1961). The species has a painful sting. The exumbrella diameter is 100 mm. Its pedalia show distinct unilateral branching and the pedalial canal possesses a prominent ‘spike’ at the bend. These features are characteristic of Chiropsoides buitendijki as described by Gershwin (2006a).

Distribution and habitat: It inhabits the mangrove and coastal areas, and is commonly found in Teluk Bahang. Originally, the species was described under the genus Chiropsalmus , until recently revised as Chiropsoides ( Bentlage et al. 2009) .

Figures

Fig. 1. Jellyfish species collected in Malaysian waters. Cubozoan jellyfish; Morbakka sp. (a), Chiropsoides buitendijki (b); Scyphozoan jellyfish; Acromitus flagellatus (c), Catostylus townsendi (d), Cephea cephea (e), Chrysaora chinensis (f), Cyanea sp. (g), Lobonemoides robustus (h), Mastigias sp. (i), Phyllorhiza punctata (j), Rhopilema hispidum (k) and Rhopilema esculentum (l).