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On a new species of scyphomedusa, Atolla vanhoffeni n.sp.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
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In 1902 Ernst Vanhöffen drew attention to the occurrence of eight dark pigment spots in Atolla which he thought might be excretory organs.
It is shown that these spots are a specific character occurring only in some specimens, and medusae with this character have been named Atolla vanhöffeni n.sp. This species can now be distinguished from A. wyvillei by other characters.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1957 , pp. 275 - 280
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1957
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