Eutima curva Browne, 1905

Buecher, Emmanuelle, Goy, Jacqueline, J, Mark & Gibbons, 2005, Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 27-69 : 56-57

Eutima curva Browne, 1905

Eutima curva: Browne 1905: 138 , pl. 3, figs 1–3, Kramp, 1961: 195; 1968: 96, fig. 259.

Description: Single slightly damaged specimen. Dome-shaped umbrella, slightly broader than tall, without apical projection; 8 mm in diameter. Exumbrella surface smooth. Mesoglea thick. Velum narrow. Peripheral canal and four radial canals present; radial canals narrow, with smooth margin, unbranched, extending from umbrella margin across underside of bell and along gastric peduncle to manubrium; without centripetal canals. With four perradial tentacles connected to peripheral canal, arising from slightly swollen (especially abaxially), linear bulbs on umbrella margin. Tentacles long, hollow, unbranched, filiform. With approx. 140 small, atentaculate marginal swellings or warts. All marginal bulbs and warts without keel, and with neither excretory papillae nor excretory pores; lateral cirri present. Manubrium short, flask-shaped, not connected to radial canals by mesenteries. Mouth simple, quadrate, with four crenulated lips. Gastric peduncle pronounced, as long as umbrella width, pyramid-shaped proximally, prismatic distally. Statocysts closed, eight in number (two per quadrant). Without ocelli. With four gonads on distal portion of gastric peduncle.

Material examined: H5057.

Comments: see E.? commensalis .

Distribution: Scattered in tropical and subtropical waters of Indo-West Pacific. This is the first record from the south-west Indian Ocean, though it has been recorded off Sri Lanka (Browne 1905). Neritic.