Scyphozoa |
Rhizostomeae |
Lychnorhizidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Pelagic. Tropical
Distribution
Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Malayan Archipelago.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 23.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)
23 cm wide, exumbrella with numerous ribs radiating from apex towards margin; eight (2 times 4) pointed velar lappets in each octant; arm-disk with short filaments; mouth arms a slong as disk radius, widely separated from each other, with few ahort filaments; rhopalae radial canals broad, inter-rhopalar narrower, two centripetal canals between adjacent radial canals.
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. (Ref. 2992)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Estimates based on models
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (13 of 100).