Glaciambulata Galea, gen. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Horia R. Galea, Cornelia Roder, Christoph Walcher, Marco Warmuth, Eberhard Kohlberg, Philipp F. Fischer
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Trachymedusae; Ptychogastriidae; Glaciambulata; Glaciambulata neumayeri; Antarctic; Medusa; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5628724; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5628724

Genus Glaciambulata Galea, gen. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B2696364-D58F-4BB9-B326-DE244E1FA51A Type species Glaciambulata neumayeri gen. et sp. nov. Diagnosis Crawling medusae, unable to swim, possibly due to the absence of a velum. Umbrella watch glassshaped, margin entire, not lobed; exumbrella smooth; eight radial canals joining a circular canal; centripetal canals absent; manubrium eight-lobed, giving rise to eight perradial mesenteries; eight pairs of gonads, each of which is conFned to either side of a manubrial lobe; tentacles of two types, Fliform and adhesive, arranged in contiguous groups composed of several superimposed rows; 16 free, ectoendodermal statocysts (2 per octant). Etymology From the Latin words glăciēs, meaning ice, and ambŭlo, -āvī, -ātum, -āre, meaning to walk, making reference to the peculiar habit of this medusa. Remarks The Fat, smooth umbrella, and the absence of a velum immediately distinguish the new genus from Ptychogastria Allman, 1878 and Tesserogastria Beyer, 1959. The ... : Published as part of Horia R. Galea, Cornelia Roder, Christoph Walcher, Marco Warmuth, Eberhard Kohlberg & Philipp F. Fischer, 2016, Glaciambulata neumayeri gen. et sp. nov., a new Antarctic trachymedusa (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), with a revision of the family Ptychogastriidae, pp. 1-30 in European Journal of Taxonomy 252 on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.252, http://zenodo.org/record/221250 ...