Versuriga anadyomene (Maas, 1903)
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Family:  Mastigiidae ()
Max. size:  60 cm WD (male/unsexed)
Environment:  pelagic; marine
Distribution:  Indo-West Pacific.
Diagnosis:  Up to 60 cm wide, quite flat, exumbrella with network of anstomosing furrows; in each octant about eight large semicircular velar lappets alternating with small, narrow lappets; arms-disk with filaments; mouth-arms about as long as disk radius, strongly laterally compressed, with numerous flat, membraneous branches, with small club-shaped vesicles and on ventral side tapering filaments; perradial rhopalar canals broad, without anastomoses, the interradial narrow, with numerous anastomoses.
Biology:  Commensals: host to a fish, a crab, and a copepod (Ref. 116535).
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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