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Lucernaria australis

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Lucernaria australis   Vanhöffen, 1908

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Staurozoa | Stauromedusae | Lucernariidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthopelagic.  Polar

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northwest Atlantic: Antarctic (Gauss station) and Greenland.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 0.9 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)

Short description Morphology

Calyx timble shaped, with sloping sdes, up to 9 cm wide and slightly more in height; peduncle almost rudimentary; perradial notches between arms somewhat wider and deeper than the interradial; arms short, each with up to 100 short tentacles; gonads very broad, extending to base of arms.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Species recorded below a 200 meter depth (Ref. 116634).

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 2024-2)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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