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Mastigias albipunctata Stiasny, 1920
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Scyphozoa | Rhizostomeae | Mastigiidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Pelagic. Tropical; 29°N - 47°S, 87°E - 160°E
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Indo-West Pacific: from Indian Ocean to Japan, south to Tasmania and east to Lord Howe Island.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 14.5 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)
Short description Morphology
Up to 14.5 cm wide, usually faintly vaulted, exumbrella with a network of nematocysts warts, with a whitish accumulation of nematocysts at apex; number of velar klappets variable, 6 to 14 in each octant; arm-disk with one very long central filament surrounded by several shorter; moutharms about as long as disk-radius, their terminal appendages variable in length and shape; 12 to 14 canal roots in each octant; perradial rhopalar canals shorter and broader than theinterradial, with few or no anastomoses.
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: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
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