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Identifier: medusaeofworld02mayo (find matches)
Title: Medusae of the world
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922 Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922
Subjects: Jellyfishes Cnidaria
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Carnegie institution of Washington
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ue. Tropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, and Mediterranean. Not common atthe surface, but abundant at a depth of ioo fathoms. The gonads begin to develop whenthe medusa is 6 to y mm. wide. Vanhoffen, 1902, presents beautiful figures of this medusa. Bigelow, 1909, records the capture of 11 specimens at depths between 300 fathoms andthe surface, in the Humboldt Current, off the western coast of tropical South America. It will never be possible to specifically determine Quoy and Gaimards D. faneraria,and I therefore believe that confusion will be avoided by dropping this specific name andaccepting the name R. ctrruhum of Haeckel and of Maas. (See text-figures 221 to 223.) Rhopalonema striatum Maas.Rhopalonema striatum, Maas, 1893, Ergeb. tier Plankton Exped., BJ. 2, K.c, p. 15, taf. 1, figs. 3, 4. Bell flat, the shape of a Chinese hat, 4 mm. wide and I mm. high. 16 tentacles: 8 largeradial, 8 small interradial. 16 or more lithocysts alternating with the tentacles. 8 wide, spin-
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Fig. 219.—Rhopalonema vclatum, after Agassiz and Mayer, in Mem. Museum of Comp. Zool. at Harvard College. Fig. 220.—Rhopalonema polydact\lum, after Haecke!, 1879. Fig. 221.—Rhopalonema cozruleum, after Maas, in Hydromedusen Siboga Expedition. die-shaped gonads, extending along the middle of inner thirds of the 8 radial-canals. Velumlarge. Stomach very short. Mouth with 4 simple lips. Bermudas to Sargasso Sea, tropicalAtlantic. Described by Maas from preserved specimens. The flat, expanded shape of the bellmay be due to unnatural distortion. (See text-figures 224.) 222. 224.

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