Scyphozoa |
Coronatae |
Nausithoidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Pelagic. Subtropical
Distribution
Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)
2 cm wide, 0.8 cm high; 6 to 8 slender gastric filaments in each interradius; the four gonads crescent-shpaed with the horns recurved.
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.
Jarms, G. and A.C. Morandini (eds.). 2019. (Ref. 121705)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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Age/SizeGrowthLength-weightLength-lengthMorphologyLarvaeAbundance
Internet sources
Estimates based on models
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.