Redescription of the enigmatic jellyfish,Crambionella annandalei(Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from Indian waters

Autor:	Pralaya Ranjan Behera, Raju Saravanan, K K Joshi, M. A. Jishnudev, V. Uma Mahesh, Shubhadeep Ghosh, Subal Kumar Roul
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Cnidaria Jellyfish Distal portion East coast biology Discomedusae biology.animal Zoology Oral arm Scyphozoa Aquatic Science Crambionella biology.organism_classification
Zdroj:	Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 100:691-699
ISSN:	1469-7769 0025-3154
Popis:	The catostylid jellyfish,Crambionella annandaleiwas originally described by Rao (1932) based on a preserved specimen collected from the Andaman Sea. Since then, no detailed taxonomic studies have been conducted and the species is often misidentified. Here, we provide a detailed morphological re-description ofC. annandaleifrom fresh material collected at a variety of locations along the east coast of India. The species can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of morphological characters, the most important of which are the proportion of terminal club length to oral arm length (0.48 ± 0.031), the proportion of the distal portion of the oral arm to naked proximal portion (7.25 ± 0.268) and the body colour. The occurrence of intra-specific colour variation in fresh specimens was also observed in the present study.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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