Chrysaora melanaster   Brandt, 1838


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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

| Semaeostomeae | Pelagiidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

Pelágico.  Polar (Ref. 1663)

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Introducciones

Arctic, North Atlantic and North Pacific.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 60.0 cm WD macho / no sexado; (Ref. 2376)

Short description Morfología

Up to 30 cm wide, about 0ne-third as high as wide; marginal lappets of almost equal size and shape; septa between stomach pouches straight, rhopalar pouches in middle portion somewhat broader, at margin considerably narrower than the tentacular pouches; 3 to 5 tentacles per octant; 32 radiating reddish or brown streaks on exumbrella and moreover 16 radiating dark brown, almost black, streaks on subumbrella below the septa between the stomach pouches.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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.

Main reference Referencias | Coordinador | Colaboradores

Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, D.G. Fautin, P.R. Pugh, C.E. Mills, W.C. Jaap, M.N. Arai, S.H.D. Haddock and D.M. Opresko. 2003. (Ref. 1663)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Fuentes de Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia (Go, búsqueda) | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.