Günther, 1903

Description
Umbrella about as high as wide; jelly thick [Bythotiara murrayi ]. Usually four radial canals, bifurcating (at least once); centripetal canals absent.
Gastric peduncle absent, manubrium small; mouth with four simple lips. Manubrium with four interradial gonads with transverse furrows.
Long hollow tentacles without basal swellings, similar in number to the radial canal endings, tentacles terminating in a large nematocyst cluster; some small secondary and minute dwarf-tentacles [B.murrayi-habitus ].

Size
Umbrella up to about 20 mm wide and high.

Depth range
Deep-water species.

Distribution in the North Sea
Skagerrak, Norwegian coast.

World distribution
Circum-(sub)tropical.

Remark
Hydroid probably unknown.

[After Russell, 1955; Kramp, 1959; Kramp, 1961]

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Superclass Hydrozoa
Class Leptolida
Subclass Anthoathecatae
Order Filifera
Family Calycopsidae
Genus Bythotiara
Species Bythotiara murrayi

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Bythotiara murrayi Günther, 1903

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species

Fraser, J.H., 1972. The distribution of the Medusae in the Scottish area. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (B) 74(1): 1-25.

Kramp, P.L. and D. Damas, 1925. Les Méduses de la Norvège. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København 80: 217-323.

Kramp, P.L., 1959. The hydromedusae of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent waters. Dana Report 46: 1-283; 2 plates, 335 text figures.

Kramp, P.L., 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469.

Russell, F.S., 1953a. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae, and Narcomedusae. Cambridge University Press, 530 pp. 319 figures, 35 plates.

Russell, F.S., 1955. Hydromedusae. Order: Anthomedusae. Families: Rathkeidae and Bougainvilliidae. Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 54 (1955). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen.

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