Solmundella bitentaculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 30-31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7909936

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7910447

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E428F04-2A7D-8F1D-9658-36B08F7AFE34

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scientific name

Solmundella bitentaculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
status

 

Solmundella bitentaculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 View in CoL View at ENA

Solmundella bitentaculata: Quoy and Gaimard 1833: 295 View in CoL , figs 4, 5; Kramp 1961: 270; 1968: 124, fig. 338.

Description: 144 specimens from 46 stations. Bell-shaped umbrella, as high as broad; up to 11 mm in diameter. Exumbrella smooth. Mesoglea thickened dorsally. Velum broad. Four peronia, alternating deep and shallow. Two opposite tentacles arising from within mesoglea near apex, solid, long and characteristically banded.Without secondary tentacles on umbrella margin. Mouth simple, circular. Eight quadrangular gastric pouches, situated below level of tentacles. Peripheral canal absent. Up to 32 statocysts, otoporpae absent. Gonads associated with gastric pouches.

Material examined: H4981, H4982.

Comments: This is the only species in this genus.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan. Previously recorded around the Chagos Archipelago (Browne 1916) and Mozambique (Bouillon 1978 b). Eurybathic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Narcomedusae

Family

Solmundaeginidae

Genus

Solmundella

Loc

Solmundella bitentaculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons 2005
2005
Loc

Solmundella bitentaculata:

QUOY, J. R. & GAIMARD, J. P. 1833: 295
1833
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