Ptychophorae

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Ptychophorae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Rhizostomeae
Suborder: Ptychophorae
Gershwin & Davie, 2013

Ptychophorae is a suborder of rhizostome jellyfish, identified in 2013 by Gershwin and Davie. [1]

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The word Ptychophorae is said to be derived from the Greek ptychos (fold, leaf, layer) and phoras (bearing), in reference to the hooded rhopalia. [1] The proper word for 'fold' in ancient Greek is however ptyx (πτύξ). [2]

Distinctive features

Ptychophorae are distinguished by the following features:

Taxonomy

The single identified member of this suborder is the Bazinga rieki .

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References

  1. 1 2 Gershwin, L. & Davie, P.J.F. (30 June 2013). "A remarkable new jellyfish (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from coastal Australia, representing a new suborder within the Rhizostomeae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 56(2)" (PDF). Queensland Museum. pp. 625–630. ISSN   0079-8835.
  2. Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.