Atolla vanhoeffeni Russell 1957

• Main Authors: Gershwin, Lisa-Ann, Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Scyphozoa; Coronatae; Atollidae; Atolla; Atolla vanhoeffeni; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5306104; https://zenodo.org/record/5306104

Atolla vanhoeffeni Russell, 1957 Material examined. AM G 16025, east of Brush Island, NSW, 35 ° 36 ’S 150 ° 55 ’E, FRV Kapala , JP 77 -13, 27 October 1977; 3 specimens, 33.17mm BD, 27.92mm BD, 15.77mm BD. Remarks. The specimens match descriptions of A. vanhoeffeni by Russell (1957 a, 1970) and Larson (1986 b): i.e., the stomach is cruciform, with a pair of dark spots at each end of the cross. This is the first record of A. vanhoeffeni in Australian waters. : Published as part of Gershwin, Lisa-Ann & Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2008, Some new and previously unrecorded Scyphomedusae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from southern Australian coastal waters, pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 1744 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274217 : {"references": ["Russell, F. S. (1957 a) On a new species of scyphomedusa, Atolla vanhoffeni n. sp. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 36, 275 - 279, pl. 1.", "Russell, F. S. (1970) Medusae of the British Isles. II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a Supplement to the First Volume on Hydromedusae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 284 pp.", "Larson, R. J. (1986) Pelagic scyphomedusae (Scyphozoa: Coronatae and Semaeostomeae) of the Southern Ocean. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XVI, Antarctic Research Series, 41, 59 - 165."]}