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 550 - 2522 m (Ref. 121705). Subtropical
Cosmopolitan.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 25.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)
Up to 25 cm wide; margin wavy, with 16 deep clefts for the rhopalia; the ring canal gives rise to one or two blindly-ending diverticula in each of the inter-rhopalar spaces; about 40 simple radial canals; gonads an almost continuous ring around the periphery of the stomach.
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.
Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, D.G. Fautin, P.R. Pugh, C.E. Mills, W.C. Jaap, M.N. Arai, S.H.D. Haddock and D.M. Opresko. 2003. (Ref. 1663)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (15 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.
