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WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Foersteria antoniae Gili, Bouillon, Pagès, Palanques, Puig & Heussner, 1998) Gili, J.M., J. Bouillon, F. Pagès, A. Palanques, P. Puig & S. Heussner, 1998. Origin and biogeography of the deep-water Mediterranean Hydromedusae including the description of two new species collected in submarine canyons of Northwestern Mediterranean. Sci. Mar. 62 1-2: 113-134. page(s): 117, figs 3-4 [details]
additional source
Collins, J.S.H.; Ross, A.J.; Genzano, G.; MIanzan, H. (2006). <i>Earleria</i> gen. nov. & <i>Gabriella</i> gen. nov., replacement names for <i>Foersteria</i> Arai & Brinckmann-Voss, 1980 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Mitrocomidae) and <i>Foersteria</i> Wehner, 1988 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Prosopidae), junior homonyms of <i>Foersteria</i> Szépligeti, 1896 (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae). <em>Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum.</em> 33: 125-126. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Diagnosis: Umbrella flatter than a hemisphere, 6 mm wide, 3 mm high; 40 marginal tentacles; manubrium very short, very broad, 1/3 of umbrella, with quadratic base, colour dark purple-brown; mouth with 4 simple, not groove-shaped lips; marginal bulbs large, rounded without cnidocyst deposits; gonads spherical to elongate depending on sex, on the distal half of radial canals; 40 open statocysts. [details]
Type locality Lacaze-Duthiers canyon, off Banyuls, Mediterranean [details]
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