WoRMS taxon details
Cyanea altafissura Samsodien, Brown & Gibbons, 2024
1770542 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1770542)
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Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Samsodien, Y.; Brown, M. K.; Gibbons, M. J. (2024). Integrative taxonomy reveals the presence of a new species of Cyanea (Scyphozoa: Discomedusae: Semaeostomeae: Cyaneidae) from the West coast of Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5507(3): 401-426., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5507.3.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype SAMC SAMC-A096867, geounit Gulf of Guinea
Holotype SAMC SAMC-A096867, geounit Gulf of Guinea [details]
WoRMS (2024). Cyanea altafissura Samsodien, Brown & Gibbons, 2024. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1770542 on 2024-11-20
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Samsodien, Y.; Brown, M. K.; Gibbons, M. J. (2024). Integrative taxonomy reveals the presence of a new species of Cyanea (Scyphozoa: Discomedusae: Semaeostomeae: Cyaneidae) from the West coast of Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5507(3): 401-426., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5507.3.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SAMC SAMC-A096867, geounit Gulf of Guinea [details]
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Diagnosis Medium-sized Cyanea; exumbrella surface slightly papillose throughout; 16 rectangular marginal lobes; rhopalial clefts deeper than velar clefts; radial and coronal muscle fields prominent, without gastrovascular intrusions, with 5 and 7 muscle folds respectively. With up to 200 strap-like, hollow tentacles arranged in eight Ushaped fields or clusters. Rhopalium small; statocyst on short stalk lacking bulbs/warts located at base of long, tubular rhopalial pit. Mouth arms greatly thickened basally; gastrovascular sinus in 16 lobes separated by interrupted septa of the nozakii type, penetrating marginal lappets on a broad front as a fine network of branching and anastomosing canals. [details]
