Scyphozoa |
Rhizostomeae |
Lobonematidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Pelagic-neritic. Tropical; 26°N - 16°S, 86°E - 137°E (Ref. 121705)
Indo-West Pacific: from Bangladesh to western Australia and Okinawa Japan.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 46.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 121705)
16 to 32 cm wide, faintly arched, central portion very thick, margin, thin exumbrella with pointed papillae, 15 to 30 cm long; 11 to 21 rhopalis; velar lappets up to 9.5 cm long with slender, thred-like extremities, 1-6 between adjacent rhopalia; mouth-arms broad, three-winged, up to 14.5 cm long, each with 1 to 4 window like openings and with filaments up to 13 cm long and a long spindle-shaped terminal appendage; 20 to 34 radial canals, inter-rhopalar canals effaced beyond ring canal.
Depth estimate based on ecology. Found along coasts (Refs. 97578, 116581, 122797) (Ref. 2992).
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 Synopsis of the medusae of the world. J Mar Biol Ass UK 40:1-469. (Ref. 2992)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
Fisheries: commercial
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Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
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Estimates based on models
Fishing Vulnerability
Moderate vulnerability (36 of 100).
