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On two new medusae, Merga reesi n.sp. and Tiaropsidium atlanticum n.sp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

F. S. Russell
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

In a collection made with a 2 m stramin ring trawl at 47° 12′ N., 7° 40′ W. on 21 July 1955, with 450 fathoms of wire out, I have found two new species of medusae. These were each represented by a single specimen, one of which was an anthomedusa and the other a leptomedusa.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1956

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Kramp, P. L., 1932. A revision of the medusae belonging to the Family Mitrocomidae. Vidensk. Medd. dansk. naturh. Foren. Kbh., Bd. 92, pp. 305–83.Google Scholar
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