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

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13781/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420000703
 
Title Redescription of the enigmatic jellyfish,
Crambionella annandalei (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)
from Indian waters
 
Creator Behera, Pralaya Ranjan
Jishnudev, M A
Saravanan, Raju
Roul, Subal Kumar
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
Uma Mahesh, V
Joshi, K K
 
Subject Hydrozoa
Jellyfish
 
Description The catostylid jellyfish, Crambionella annandalei was 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 of C. annandalei from 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.
 
Date 2020
 
Type Article
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13781/1/JMBAUK_2020_P%20R%20Behera_Redescription%20of%20the%20enigmatic%20jellyfish.pdf
Behera, Pralaya Ranjan and Jishnudev, M A and Saravanan, Raju and Roul, Subal Kumar and Ghosh, Shubhadeep and Uma Mahesh, V and Joshi, K K (2020) Redescription of the enigmatic jellyfish, Crambionella annandalei (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from Indian waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.