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Gamero-Mora, E., Collins, A.G., Boco, S.R., Geson III, S.M., Morandini, A.C. (2022). Revealing hidden diversity among upside-down jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cassiopea): distinct evidence allows the change of status of a neglected variety and the description of a new species. Invertebrate Systematics. 36(1): 63-89.
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10.1071/IS21002 [view]
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1A66787-009D-4465-954A-412C6878FCB4 [view]
Gamero-Mora, E., Collins, A.G., Boco, S.R., Geson III, S.M., Morandini, A.C.
2022
Revealing hidden diversity among upside-down jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cassiopea): distinct evidence allows the change of status of a neglected variety and the description of a new species.
Invertebrate Systematics
36(1): 63-89
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Morphological variability within Cassiopea is well documented and has led to inaccuracies in the establishment of species boundaries in this taxon. Cassiopea medusae specimens from the Western Pacific (Japan and the Philippines) were analysed using multiple lines of complementary evidence, including types of cnidae, macro-morphology and molecular data. These observations lead to the recognition of two distinct species: Cassiopea mayeri, sp. nov. and a previously synonymised variety now raised to species level (Cassiopea culionensis, stat. nov.). These species can be distinguished from each other using morphological features. Herein, sexually dimorphic traits are included for the first time in the descriptions of Cassiopea species. Nematocyst types not previously observed in the genus are also reported. Molecular analyses, based on individual and combined markers (16S + cytochrome c oxidase I, COI), also support two distinct species; they are not sister taxa, and both are nested together within a clade of other Cassiopea members from the Australian and Indo-Pacific regions. Species richness is underestimated in the Western Pacific region, and integrative approaches are helpful to reveal and describe species. The systematics of Cassiopea is far from completely understood, but the present study represents an important further step.
Philippines
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Holotype MZUSP 8631, geounit Lapu Lapu, identified as Cassiopea mayeri Gamero-Mora, Collins, Boco, Geson III & Morandini, 2022
Neotype MZUSP 8634, geounit Lapu Lapu, identified as Cassiopea culionensis Light, 1914
 Diagnosis

Oral arms with small parabolic or orbicular appendages throughout; females with a central flattened appendage ... [details]

 Diagnosis

Oral arms with small parabolic or orbicular appendages throughout, and large ones at centre of disc, at axil of ... [details]