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(Redirected from Lipkeidae) Genus of jellyfishes

Lipkea
A Lipkea specimen from South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Staurozoa
Order: Stauromedusae
Suborder: Myostaurida
Family: Lipkeidae
Vogt, 1887
Genus: Lipkea
Vogt, 1886
Species

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Lipkea is a genus of stalked jellyfish. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Lipkeidae. Lipkea species lack tentacles at the end of their bell.

Genera and Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, there are only three described species in this family and genus:

Distribution

According to the World Register of Marine Species L. stephensoni is the only species known from the waters off the coast of South Africa. The other Lipkea species (Lipkea ruspoliana and Lipkea sturdzi) are found in the mediterranean sea. It is likely that there are undescribed specimens of Lipkea. For instance the images in the gallery below show Lipkea with dense nematocyst clusters (white spots) distributed throughout the oral surface, which are not characteristic of previous descriptions for the three described Lipkea.

Gallery

  • A Lipkea specimen with dense nematocyst clusters A Lipkea specimen with dense nematocyst clusters
  • A cluster of Lipkea A cluster of Lipkea

References

  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipkeidae Vogt, 1887". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  2. Miranda, Lucília S.; Hirano, Yayoi M.; Mills, Claudia E.; Falconer, Audrey; Fenwick, David; Marques, Antonio C.; Collins, Allen G. (2016). "Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)". PeerJ. 4: e1951. doi:10.7717/peerj.1951. PMC 4860332. PMID 27168970.
  3. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipkea Vogt, 1886". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  4. ^ Pisani, Valérie; Otero-Ferrer, Francisco; Lotto, Séverine; Maurel, Philippe; Goy, Jacqueline (2007). "LIPKEA RUSPOLIANA VOGT, 1887, (STAUROMEDUSA, SCYPHOZOA, CNIDARIA) DANS LES AQUARIUMS DU MUSÉE OCÉANOGRAPHIQUE DE MONACO" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Information system on scyphozoa, cubozoa, and staurozoa".
  6. "World Register of Marine Species - Lipkea". Retrieved 2019-08-19.
Taxon identifiers
Lipkea
Lipkeidae


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