A new macromedusa from the coast of Mozambique: Aurelia mozambica sp. nov (Scyphozoa: Ulmaridae) Author Brown, Michael Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X 17, Bellville 7535, South Africa Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy simoscorrano @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5928 - 0172 Author Scorrano, Simonetta 0000-0001-5928-0172 simoscorrano@gmail.com Author Kuplik, Zafrir 0000-0001-7030-3494 Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X 17, Bellville 7535, South Africa Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy simoscorrano @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5928 - 0172 & kuplik 3 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7030 - 3494 kuplik3@gmail.com Author Kuyper, Drikus 0000-0001-5784-4157 Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X 17, Bellville 7535, South Africa Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy simoscorrano @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5928 - 0172 & kuyperd @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5784 - 4157 kuyperd@gmail.com Author Ras, Verena 0000-0003-3938-7241 Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X 17, Bellville 7535, South Africa Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy simoscorrano @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5928 - 0172 & verenaras @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3938 - 7241 verenaras@gmail.com Author Thibault, Delphine Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO, Marseille, France Author Engelbrecht, Adriaan 0000-0001-8846-4069 Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X 17, Bellville 7535, South Africa Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy simoscorrano @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5928 - 0172 & adengelbrecht @ uwc. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8846 - 4069 & mgibbons @ uwc. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8320 - 8151 adengelbrecht@uwc.ac.za text Zootaxa 2021 2021-02-19 4933 2 263 276 journal article 8054 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.2.5 6bfa5fcd-4169-4681-8537-4ce19b20b7e7 1175-5326 4550302 60792E26-2286-4FF4-91D8-6188447C7CB0

TABLE 4. Comparisons of species recorded in the Western Indian Ocean based off original type descriptions.

	A. colpota	A. maldivensis	A. solida	A. mozambica sp. nov.
Tentacles	Original description	Pink to violet, situated on	Numerous small, pink-	White, short tentacles
	(Brandt, 1835): Reddish.	exumbrella, some distance	ish tentacles arranged	arranged on bell margin;
	Maas (1903): Yellow. No	from bell margin; approxi-	slightly above bell	approximately 35–40 per
	other data available.	mately 60 per lappet.	margin.	lappet (70–80 per octant)
Oral	Ovate-Lanceolate.	Large, tentacled; extending	Slightly folded; mean	Undivided, heavily
arms		curtain like below the bell	length 88% of bell	folded; less than half
			radius.	umbrella diameter in
				length.
Colour	Original description	Whole animal including	Bell margin; light	Opaque/ translucent with
	(Brandt, 1835): Red-	gonads is bright lilac, pink	violet.	lilac gonads.
	dish. Maas (1903): Pink	or blue.
	gonads.
Canals	Insufficient data.	Pink to violet; interradial	Salmon-violet; adradial	White/Opaque; interra-
		canals frequently anasto-	canals branched few	dial and perradial canals
		mose; adradial canals un-	times.	branched; unbranched
		branched, as are the canals		adradial canals.
		running to the indent on the
		middle of each lappet.
Bell	Insufficient data.	8 velar lobes with indenta-	Bell shape typically	16 marginal lobes. Bell
shape		tions on midpoint of each	undulating, 8 marginal	flat, thickening to centre
		lobe. Bell very thick and	lobes.
		more than one third as high
		as broad.