Mastigiidae () |
60 cm WD (male/unsexed) |
pelagic; marine |
Indo-West Pacific. |
Up to 60 cm wide, quite flat, exumbrella with network of anstomosing furrows; in each octant about eight large semicircular velar lappets alternating with small, narrow lappets; arms-disk with filaments; mouth-arms about as long as disk radius, strongly laterally compressed, with numerous flat, membraneous branches, with small club-shaped vesicles and on ventral side tapering filaments; perradial rhopalar canals broad, without anastomoses, the interradial narrow, with numerous anastomoses. |
Commensals: host to a fish, a crab, and a copepod (Ref. 116535). |
Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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