Meteorona, Toshino, Sho, Miyake, Hiroshi & Shibata, Haruka, 2015

Toshino, Sho, Miyake, Hiroshi & Shibata, Haruka, 2015, Meteoronakishinouyei, a new family, genus and species (Cnidaria, Cubozoa, Chirodropida) from Japanese Waters, ZooKeys 503, pp. 1-21 : 5

Taxon classification Animalia Chirodropida Chiropsellidae

Genus Meteorona gen. n.

Genus diagnosis.

Chiropsellidae with smooth, unbranched, slightly raised gastric saccules. Gonads leaf-shaped. Gastric phacellae horseshoe-shaped. Sensory niches U-shaped, with medial tongue-shape flap on upper rhopaliar scale. Pedalia four, unbranched, scalpel-like with one tentacle per pedalium.

Type species.

Meteorona kishinouyei sp. n. here designated.

Etymology.

The genus name comes from the meteor-like appearance of the jellyfish shooting through the sea while swimming. The name Meteorona is taken from the Latin ‘Meteoron’, with the suffix -a. Gender is feminine.