Cunina peregrina H.B. Bigelow, 1909

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 31-32

Cunina peregrina H.B. Bigelow, 1909

Cunina peregrina: H.B. Bigelow 1909: 59 , pl.1, fig. 6, pl.15, figs 1, 2, pl. 28, figs 1, 7, pl. 45, fig. 8; Kramp 1961: 283; 1968: 129, fig. 348.

Description: Three specimens from two stations. Hemispherical umbrella, slightly broader than tall, up to 9 mm in diameter. Exumbrella surface smooth. Mesoglea thickened dorsally. Velum broad. 12 equally-well developed peronia; 12 broad marginal lappets, short, square. 12 tentacles arising from within mesoglea, at centre of each gastric pouch, short, solid and characteristically banded. Without secondary tentacles on umbrella margin. Mouth simple, circular. 12 quadrangular gastric pouches, not extending beyond level of tentacles ventrad. Peripheral canal absent. 4–10 statocysts per marginal lappet; otoporpae present, narrow, linear. Gonads associated with gastric pouches.

Material examined: H4984.

Comments: see C. globosa .

Distribution:World-wide in tropical and subtropical waters. Previously collected around the Seychelles (Bouillon 1978 b) and off south-east Africa and in the Mozambique Channel (Kramp 1957 a). Epipelagic.