Description:-

Gonads no more than half as long as radial canals. Umbrella 9 mm wide, 10-12 mm high, conical, with very thick mesoglea; manubrium half as wide as umbrella diameter, often broad and flat; mouth with long and slender lips with inward furrow which continues along inside of manubrium to radial canals; about 16 radial canals, twice as many tentacles (20-30), and as many small bulbs, both without excretory papillae or pores; about twice as many statocysts as tentacles; gonads laterally compressed, in proximal half of radial canals.

Threats:-

Not recorded

Remark:-

Habitat:-

Marine

Synonyms:-

Aequoreaconica Browne, 1905

References:-

NAIR, K. K. 1951. Medusae of the Trivandrum Coast. Part I. Systematics. Bulletin of the Research Institute of the University of Travancore 20: 47-75, pl. 1.

Santhakumari, V and Nair, VR (1999) Distribution of hydromedusae from the exclusive economic zone of the west and east coasts of India Indian Journal of Marine Sciences CSIR, New Delhi 28 150-157 Available at - NIO, RC Kochi
Vannucci, M; Santhakumari, V and dos Santos, EP (1970) The ecology ofhydromedusae from the Cochin areaMarine Biology Springer Berlin 7(1) 49-58 Available at - http://www.springerlink.com/content/p0216458384h1867/fulltext.pdf.
Schuchert, P. (2014). Aequorea conica Browne, 1905. In: Schuchert, P. (2014) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117269 on 2015-03-11