Cigar jelly (species: Olindias malayensis) in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
Olindias malayensis
Cigar jelly


©Lyle Vail: Olindias malayensis near the water surface during coral spawning at night at Big Vicki's Reef, Lizard Island. Thanks to Claudia Mills (University of Washington) for the identification through iNaturalist.

©Anne Hoggett: Olindias malayensis in its rolled-up form during the day, moved into water column from its resting place on the bottom, Lizard Island (26 Jan 2016)

©Anne Hoggett: Olindias malayensis in its rolled-up form during the day, moved into water column from its resting place on the bottom, Lizard Island (26 Jan 2016)
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Hydrozoa
Order Limnomedusae
Family Olindiidae
Genus Olindias
Species Olindias malayensis

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Distinguishing features

Comments by Claudia Mills in support of her id of the first photo as Olindias malayensis (iNaturalist observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57714572): "The several blind centripetal canals of Olindias species slightly show running up the subumbrella from the margin between radial canals. O. malayensis has gonads along the entire length of radial canals, as does yours. And the brown "balls" around the margin seem specific, too."

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

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References

  • Toshino, S., M. Tanimoto and R. Minemizu (2019). Olindias deigo sp. nov., a new species (Hydrozoa, Trachylinae, Limnomedusae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, southern Japan. Zookeys, 900: 1-21. LIRS catalog number 90400.