Some new and previously unrecorded Scyphomedusae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from southern Australian coastal waters

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1744, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Gershwin, Lisa Ann ^a,b   Zeidler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atolla; Chrysaora; Desmonema; New records; New species; Nomenclature; Paraphyllina; Pelagia; Periphylla; Scyphomedusae; Southern Australia; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ATOLLA; ATOLLA VANHOEFFENI; ATOLLA WYVILLEI; CHRYSAORA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DESMONEMA; PARAPHYLLINA; PELAGIA; PERIPHYLLA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 42449141027     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1744.1.1     Document Type: Article

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