Chrysaora melanaster
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Chrysaora melanaster   Brandt, 1838

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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Scyphozoa | Semaeostomeae | Pelagiidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range Ekologi

Pelagiska.  Polar (Ref. 1663)

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Arctic, North Atlantic and North Pacific.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 60.0 cm WD hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 2376)

Short description Morfologi

Up to 30 cm wide, about 0ne-third as high as wide; marginal lappets of almost equal size and shape; septa between stomach pouches straight, rhopalar pouches in middle portion somewhat broader, at margin considerably narrower than the tentacular pouches; 3 to 5 tentacles per octant; 32 radiating reddish or brown streaks on exumbrella and moreover 16 radiating dark brown, almost black, streaks on subumbrella below the septa between the stomach pouches.

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | 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 referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

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 Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophore, Second Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no,28. XI+115. With CD-ROM. (Ref. 1663)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Life cycle
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Lek
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Internet-källor

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.