| Mastigiidae () |
| 8 cm WD (male/unsexed) |
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pelagic; marine |
| Indo-West Pacific: from South Africa north to Russia and east to Fiji. Tropical to temperate. |
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Up to 8 cm wide, usually hemispherical, exumbrella with very fine granulations; gelationous substance firm; deep furrows between the 8 velar lappets (in each octant); mouth-arms about half as long as bell diameter, the simple upper portion one and a half times as long as the three-winged lower portion; each arm usually, but not always, terminates in a club-like filament, triangularin cross-section; numerous small, club-shaped cesicles between mouths; less than 10 canal-roots in each octant; rhopalar canals clender, usually with anastomoses. |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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