Acromitus flagellatus

Scientific Name:-

Acromitus flagellatus

Common Name:-

Malayalam Name:-

Category:-

Cnidaria

Status:-

Not evaluated

Description:-

Exumbrella look smooth, most specimens have brownish yellow spot uniformly scattered over the pale white umbrella. The eight rhopalia furrowed in the exumbrellar pit. The rhopalia themselves are tipped with brownish pigment spot. Marginal lappet small with pointed edge. The velar lappet are considerably longer than narrow, pointed ocular lappet sub tending the marginal sense organ and are arranged four pair – each octant of the umbrella.

Threats:-

Not recorded

Remark:-

This species is a common in all estuaries and brackish water of Kerala (Nair, 1946, 1951; Riyas, 2013).

Habitat:-

Estuarine waters

Synonyms:-

Himantostoma flagellata Mass 1903, Acromitus flagellatus Stiasny 1920, Acromitus flagellatus Kramp 1961

References:-

Nair, K.K. 1946. Medusae of Travancore and their correlation with inshore fishing. Proc. First Indian Sci. Congress 32:97.
Nair, K.K. 195 1. Medusa of the Trivandrum coast. Pt. I-Systematics. Bull. Central Res. Inst., Univ. Travancore, Sec. C, (I), 47-75.
Riyas, A. 2013. Taxonomy of Scyphozoa and Cubozoa (Phylum: Cnidaria) of southern Kerala coast. MPhil Dissertation, University of Kerala (unpublished).
WoRMS (2014). Acromitus flagellatus (Haeckel). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220489 on 2015-02-20

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