Mastigiidae () |
14.5 cm WD (male/unsexed) |
pelagic; marine |
Indo-West Pacific: from Indian Ocean to Japan, south to Tasmania and east to Lord Howe Island. |
Up to 14.5 cm wide, usually faintly vaulted, exumbrella with a network of nematocysts warts, with a whitish accumulation of nematocysts at apex; number of velar klappets variable, 6 to 14 in each octant; arm-disk with one very long central filament surrounded by several shorter; moutharms about as long as disk-radius, their terminal appendages variable in length and shape; 12 to 14 canal roots in each octant; perradial rhopalar canals shorter and broader than theinterradial, with few or no anastomoses. |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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M: Ref. 121705. |
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