Tesserogastria musculosa Beyer 1959 ...

• 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; Tesserogastria; Tesserogastria musculosa; Antarctic; Hesthagen; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5628738; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5628738

Tesserogastria musculosa Beyer, 1959 Fig. 4 F–G Tesserogastria musculosa Beyer, 1959: 122, pls 1– 2. Tesserogastria musculosa – Hesthagen 1971: 3, Fgs 2–10. — Bouillon 1985: 202. — Larson et al. 1992: 284. — Bouillon et al. 2006: 112. Description Umbrella bell-shaped, about as high as broad (up to 2.5 mm), with a small, blunt, apical projection surrounded by a circular depression. Exumbrella devoid of radial ridges. Mesoglea rather thin, comparatively thickened at margin, accommodating a belt of chordal cells on which the tentacles insert. Over 300 tentacles, inserted at 3–5 superimposed levels, apparently not forming distinct rows or clusters; solid, core composed of a single row of chordal cells; proximally constricted, leaving tear drop-shaped scars when shed; blunt-ended to pointed distally, and there devoid of adhesive pads; nematocysts evenly dispersed in epidermis, except for the distal tip, where they are comparatively crowded. Manubrium cross-shaped (four perradial lobes are distinguishable), except ... : 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 pages 16-17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.252, http://zenodo.org/record/221250 ...