Russell, 1956

Bell transparent, dome-shaped, with prominent coronal groove; up to 7.5 cm in diameter, exumbrella with nematocyst warts, mesoglea fairly thick. Pedalia 16. Marginal lappets 16, rounded. Rhopalia 4, perradial. Tentacles 12, 3 between each rhopalium and next, 2/3 length of bell. Subumbrellar coronal muscle continuous, prominent. Stomach attached to subumbrella by 4 interadial gastric septa, forming 4 pockets that separate subumbrella from manubrium. Phacelli 8, each with ca. 20 gastric filaments. Perradial ostia 4, connecting stomach with gastrovascular sinus; distally divided by 16 centrifugal septa. Manubrium with 4 mesogleal perradial reinforcements and crenate margin. Gonads 8, W-shaped.
Color of stomach deep chocolate-red, rest colorless.

(After Russell, 1970).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Scyphozoa
Subclass Scyphomedusae
Order Coronatae
Family Linuchidae
Genus Paraphyllina
Species Paraphyllina ransoni

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Paraphyllina ransoni Russell, 1956

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