Common names from other countries
Classification / Names / Names
Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Pelagic; depth range 1000 - 1333 m (Ref. 1606). Subtropical; 69°N - 20°N, 42°W - 1°W
Eastern Atlantic: from Greenland to Iceland, east to Bay of Biscay and south to northern Mauritania.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.2 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 121705)
1.7 cm wide; central disk high, arched, solid, covered with nettle-spots; pedalia not prominent; lappets broad and rounded, equidistant; gonads large, almost quadrangular, in pairs, the pairs close together. Stomach brownish or quite black, gonads light brownish, yellowish or reddish.
Minimum depth based on type locality, to be replaced with a better reference (Ref 121705). Found in deep waters (Refs. 1606, 121705) (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.
Kramp, P.L. 1961. (Ref. 2992)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.
