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Carybdea alata auct. and Manokia stiasnyi, reclassification to a new family with description of a new genus and two new species
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To stabilize the nomenclature of the group, the new genusAlatina is proposed based on a common form for which type material and DNA sequences are available, and a new family, Alatinidae, is proposed to accommodate Alatina and Manokia.
A New Dolphin Species, the Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., Endemic to Southern Australian Coastal Waters
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It is demonstrated that the syntype material of T. maugeanus comprises two different species, one of which is the historical ‘southern form of Tursiops’ most similar to T. truncatus, and the other is representative of the new species and requires formal classification.
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Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new genera and two new species
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A preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae is given, in order to reflect the close relationship of this taxon with Chiropsoides buitendijki, based on the shared character of linear-branching pedalia.
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Non-indigenous hydromedusae in California's upper San Francisco Estuary: life cycles, distribution, and potential environmental impacts*
Two species of hydromedusae, assumed to be native to the Black and Caspian Seas, were routinely collected in Suisun Slough, California, at the Suisun City Marina, during late summer and fall of 1997.…
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Australian carybdeid jellyfish causing "Irukandji syndrome".
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Two new species of jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from tropical Western Australia, presumed to cause Irukandji Syndrome
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Two new jellyfishes are described from the waters off northwestern Australia, thought to be dangerous to humans, causing Irukandji syndrome.
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Nematocysts of the Cubozoa
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A new category of nematocyst is designated, namely ‘p-rhopaloid’, characterized by having a v-shaped notch in the undischarged shaft, as in p-mastigophores, but having a lobed discharged shaft,As in rhopaloids, which is found in both the Carybdeida and Chirodropida.
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Taxonomy and phylogeny of Australian cubozoa
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The objectives of this thesis were to revise the taxonomy of the Cubozoa based on structural characters, and to elucidate the evolutionary relationships of cubozoan species based on qualitative comparison of morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses.
Marivagia stellata gen. et sp. nov. (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), another alien jellyfish from the Mediterranean coast of Israel
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The presence of a sexually mature specimen collected as far back as 2006, and the occurrence of the species this summer at sites nearly 90 kms apart, indicate the existence of an established population.
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Biology and ecology of Irukandji jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa).
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