Glaciambulata neumayeri gen. et sp. nov., a new Antarctic trachymedusa (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), with a revision of the family Ptychogastriidae

• Published in: European Journal of Taxonomy
• Main Authors: Galea, Horia R., Roder, Cornelia, Walcher, Christoph, Warmuth, Marco, Kohlberg, Eberhard, Fischer, Philipp
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Medusa; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42864/; https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.252; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.49449

A new genus and species of sympagic trachymedusa, Glaciambulata neumayeri gen. et sp. nov., are described based on material from Antarctica. Its generic features are compared to those of its relatives, Ptychogastria Allman, 1878 and Tesserogastria Beyer, 1959, and a review of the family Ptychogastri...