Paragotoea bathybia Kramp, 1942

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 47

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7910571

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scientific name

Paragotoea bathybia Kramp, 1942
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Paragotoea bathybia Kramp, 1942 View in CoL View at ENA

Paragotoea bathybia: Kramp 1942: 26 View in CoL , figs 7a–c; 1959 a: 90, fig. 43; 1961: 44; Pagès & Bouillon 1997: 487–493.

Description: Five specimens from five samples. Bell-shaped umbrella with flattened apex, slightly taller than broad, without apical projection; up to 1.4 mm in height. Exumbrella surface smooth, with numerous scattered cnidocysts. Mesoglea uniformly thick. Velum narrow. Peripheral canal and four narrow radial canals present, latter with smooth margin; with neither centripetal nor apical canals. With four large perradial marginal bulbs. Single long, stout, proximally hollow, unbranched tentacle, with large terminal cnidocyst swelling. Manubrium essentially cylindrical, swollen, not reaching velum, not connected to radial canals by mesenteries. Mouth simple, circular, without lips; on short gastric peduncle. Without statocysts. Without ocelli on bulb of marginal tentacles. Gonads simple, interradial, entirely encircling the manubrium distally.

Material examined: H5036, H5037, H5038.

Comments: This is the only species in this genus.

Distribution: Scattered but widespread in Atlantic Ocean. This is the first record from the west Indian Ocean. Epi- and mesopelagic.

PAGES, F. & BOUILLON, J. 1997. A redescription of Paragotoea bathybia Kramp 1942 (Hydroidomedusae: Corymorphidae) with a new diagnosis for the genus. Scientia Marina 61: 487 - 493.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Anthoathecata

Family

Corymorphidae

Genus

Paragotoea