Ecology Summary - Cyanea capillata

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Ecology of Cyanea capillata

Main Ref.	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
Remarks	Estuarine, potentially pathogenic (Ref. 116114).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Cyanea capillata may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Pelagic;
Substrate Ref.	Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis and L. Chiaverano, 2009
Special habitats	Other habitats: other invertebrates (Associated with Hyperia medusarum (Ref. 3088), a commensal of Themisto australis (Ref. 3092) and a host of Hyperia galba (Ref. 3096).);
Special habitats Ref.

Associations

Ref.	Purcell, J.E. and M.N. Arai, 2001
Associations	parasitism; commensalism;
Associated with	Peprilus burti
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes, 2004
Feeding habit
Feeding habit Ref.

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items	3.62	0.41			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
Ref.