Galapagos Species Database

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Proboscidactyla ornata (McCrady, 1859)

Medusa, Medusae

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Hydrozoa

Order
Anthoathecata

Family
Proboscidactylidae

Genus
Proboscidactyla

Species
ornata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Dicranocanna furcillata Haeckel, 1879, Dyscannota dysdipleura Haeckel, 1879, Misakia typica Uchida, 1927, Proboscidactyla conica Menon, 1932, Proboscidactyla varians Browne, 1905, Willeta ornata (McCrady, 1859), Willsia ornata McCrady, 1859 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Galapagos Islands (Segura-Puertas, 1984).

References

  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Segura-Puertas, L. (1984) Morfología, sistemática y zoogeografía de las medusas (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa y Scyphozoa) del Pacífico Tropical Oriental= Morphology, sistematics and zoogeography of medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa) fron the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Segura-Puertas, L. (1984). Morfología, sistemática y zoogeografía de las medusas (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa y Scyphozoa) del Pacífico Tropical Oriental= Morphology, sistematics and zoogeography of medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa) fron the Eastern Tropical Pacific (Issue QL 378. S43).

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