Australian Museum Journal On a new species of crawling medusa Cnidonema haswelli from Australia
- Shortform:
- Briggs, 1920, Rec. Aust. Mus. 13(3): 93–104
- Author(s):
- Briggs, E. A.
- Year published:
- 1920
- Title:
- On a new species of crawling medusa Cnidonema haswelli from Australia
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 3
- Start page:
- 93
- End page:
- 104
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.13.1920.859
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xvii–xviii
- Date published:
- 04 December 1920
- Cover date:
- 04 December 1920
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 12 December 2008
- Available online:
- 06 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 859
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (102kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2128kb PDF)
Abstract
In a recently published paper Gilchrist has described a. new genus and species of crawling Medusa, Cnidonema capense, from the Cape of Good Hope. From an examination of both the medusa and the hydroid stage of the Cape species he concludes that the crawling Medusae of the Southern Hemisphere are generically distinct from the northern forms. The crawling Medusae of the Northern Hemisphere belong to the genus Eleutheria, which is represented by only two species, Eleutheria dichotoma, Quatrefages and E. Claparedei, Hartlaub.