Ernst Haeckel’s mysterious species, Part I: the validity of <i>Carybdea murrayana </i>Haeckel, 1880<i> </i>(Cubomedusae) and revisional notes on Haeckel’s other Carybdeidae

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<p>The type material of the species Carybdea murrayana Haeckel, 1880 was rediscovered in the Cubozoa collection of the Natural History Museum in London. A comparison of C. murrayana with Carybdea marsupialis (Linnaeus, 1758) and with Carybdea branchi Gershwin & Gibbons, 2009 was performed because the validity of the species has been doubted for over a century and because C. murrayana had been declared a synonym of C. marsupialis by authors like Mayer, Bigelow and Kramp, due to an apparent overlapping distribution range. The results demonstrate that C. murrayana is different from C. marsupialis but identical to C. branchi. Therefore, C. branchi is declared a junior synonym of the valid species C. murrayana Haeckel, 1880 according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.</p><p>Additionally, the line drawings and/or descriptions of the carybdeid species Procharagma prototypus Haeckel, 1880 and Procharybdis cuboides Haeckel, 1880 were translated, diagnosed, compared to well-known carybdeid species and revised.</p>

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  • Plankton and Benthos Research

    Plankton and Benthos Research 15 (1), 1-29, 2020-02-28

    The Plankton Society of Japan, The Japanese Association of Benthology

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