Scyphozoa |
Rhizostomeae |
Lychnorhizidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Pelagic. Temperate
Indo-West Pacific: Australia.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 25.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 121705)
20 to 25 m wide, 50 to 100 high; exumbrella rough; in each octant six wide, short, rounded velar lappets; each leaf of the three-winged mouth arms with many flat, fern-like expansions; a single very long filament arises from the distal end of one of the mouth 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: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (15 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.