Leuckartiara cf. octonema Xu, Huang & Guo, 2007

Leuckartiara octonema Xu, Huang & Guo, 2007: 70, fig. 5.

Type locality: Upwelling zone in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait (21°40’- 23°51’N 116°47’- 118°56’E) Material examined: MHNG-INVE-97018; hydroid colony, young medusae, and medusae cultivated to maturity (31 days) by Takanori Suehiro; Japan, Mie, Honshu, Toba City, intertidal zone, 34.47806°N 136.8675°E; date collected 09.05.2014; DNA sample 1208; for GenBank number of sequences see Table 1.

Remarks: The material used to obtain the DNA sample and the details of the life cycle will be described by Suehiro & Kubota (2018).

The morphology of the adult medusa corresponds to Leuckartiara octonema, except for the presence of ocelli on the rudimentary bulbs. Therefore, the species was provisionally identified as Leuckartiara cf. octonema only, pending further sequence comparisons with specimens from near the type locality.