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Crambione cookii Mayer, 1910

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Crambione cooki Mayer, 1910:677

 

Conservation Status

Last recorded in or before 1910. Rediscovered in 1999-2000 (Gershwin et al., 2010).

 

Distribution

Queensland, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Mayer, Alfred Gainsborough. (1910). Medusae of the World. Vol. 1 and 2, the Hydromedusae. Vol. 3, The Scyphomedusae. (Carnegie Institution: Washington, D.C.). 735 pp, 76 pls. [677]

 

Other references:

Gershwin, L., Zeidler, W. and Davie, P. J. F. (2010). Medusae (Cnidaria) of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In: Davie, P. J. F. and Phillips, J. A. (eds.). Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, the Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3): 47-108. [automatic download]

Kitamura, Minoru and Omori, Makoto. (2010). Synopsis of edible jellyfishes collected from Southeast Asia, with notes on jellyfish fisheries. Plankton and Benthos Research 5(3): 106-118.

Kramp, P. L. (1970). Zoogeographical studies on Rhizostomeae (Scyphozoa). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening 133: 7-30.

Stiasny, G. (1921). Studien über Rhizostomeen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna des malayischen Archipels nebst einer Revision des Systems. Capita Zool Deel I (2): pp. viii179.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2511854/The-Cookii-monster-Huge-deadly-pink-jellyfish-discovered-100-YEARS-seen-Australian-coast.html

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/17609/crambione-cookii

 

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