Staurozoa |
Stauromedusae |
Lucernariidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthopelagic. Temperate
Northeast Atlantic: Norway.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 6.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)
Calyx goblet-shaped up to 6 cm wide, somewhat higher than wide; peduncle as long or somewhat longer than height of calyx; perradial notches between arms twice or three times as wide and deep as the interradial; each arm with a ball-like cluster of 700 to 850 short tentacles; gonads lancet-shaped, extending to ends of arms.
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.
Kramp, P.L. 1961. (Ref. 2992)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.