Lobonemoides robustus   Stiasny, 1920

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Scyphozoa | Rhizostomeae | Lobonematidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic-neritic.  Tropical; 26°N - 16°S, 86°E - 137°E (Ref. 121705)

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific: from Bangladesh to western Australia and Okinawa Japan.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 46.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 121705)

Short description Morphology

16 to 32 cm wide, faintly arched, central portion very thick, margin, thin exumbrella with pointed papillae, 15 to 30 cm long; 11 to 21 rhopalis; velar lappets up to 9.5 cm long with slender, thred-like extremities, 1-6 between adjacent rhopalia; mouth-arms broad, three-winged, up to 14.5 cm long, each with 1 to 4 window like openings and with filaments up to 13 cm long and a long spindle-shaped terminal appendage; 20 to 34 radial canals, inter-rhopalar canals effaced beyond ring canal.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Depth estimate based on ecology. Found along coasts (Refs. 97578, 116581, 122797) (Ref. 2992).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the class Scyphozoa are gonochoric. Life cycle: Egg is laid by the adult medusa which later develops into a free-living planula, then to a scyphistoma to a strobila, and lastly to a free-living young medusa.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Kramp, P.L. 1961. (Ref. 2992)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (22 of 100).