WoRMS name details
original description
Quoy, J. R. C., Gaimard, P. (1824). Zoologie. In: Freycinet, L.C.D. Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du roi. Exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Vol. 3: 712 pp. 3 Atlas: 96 pls. Paris, Pillet Aîné, Imprimeur-Libraire. page(s): 582 [details]
new combination reference
Moser, Fanny. (1908). Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte Ostasiens: Japanische Ctenophoren. <em>Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Supplement-Band 1(4): 1–78, pl. 1‒2.</em> page(s): 14; note: transferred to Cestus [=Cestum] [details]
status source
Swanberg, N. R. (1979). The ecology of colonial radiolarians: Their colony morphology, trophic interactions and associations, behavior, distribution, and the photosynthesis of their symbionts. <em>PhD dissertation, MIT & WHOI.</em> , available online at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4166735.pdf page(s): 5; note: Considers it to be a radiolarian [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Likely not a ctenophore, described with no anatomy, but listed in Cestidae by Agassiz (1860), and synonymized with Cestum by Moser (1908). Considered to be a radiolarian by Swanberg (1979) [details]
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