WoRMS taxon details
original description
Avian, M.; Ramšak, A.; Tirelli, V.; D'ambra, I.; Malej, A. (2016). Redescription of Pelagia benovici into a new jellyfish genus, Mawia, gen. nov., and its phylogenetic position within Pelagiidae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Semaeostomeae). <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 30(6), 523-546., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/IS16010 [details]
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Diagnosis "A pelagiid with marginal tentacles without mesogleal folds, or adaxial furrow, or thickenings; basal pillars Y-shaped, slight, lateral distal branches short, slightly curved inwards, single arch cross-section, proximal portion thicker, right triangle-shaped from a lateral view; horseshoe-shaped gonads, simple folded ribbon-like, with concavity facing the manubrium, slightly protruding; covered by nematocyst warts; subgenital pouch – wide flat area, leaf clover-shaped, gonad folds slightly protruding in the distal area; exumbrellar sensory pit shallow, ovoidal, longitudinal section as a right triangle, with the minor cathetus (facing outwards) ~1/3 of the larger cathetus, the distal edge emphasised by nematocyst warts, of glass-like transparency." from Avian et al. 2016 [details]
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