Rhopilema rhopalophora   Haeckel, 1880

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

| Rhizostomeae | Rhizostomatidae

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

Pelagico.  Tropical

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar and China.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.0 cm WD maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 2992)

Short description Morfologia

4.2 cm wide (Haeckel 10 cm wide; 5 cm high); exumbrella smooth, very thin; in each octant 14 to 16 (Haeckel 18) roundish, flat velar lappets; without sub genital papillae; scapulets small; manubrium extraordinarily short, mouth arms about 2.5 m long, proximal portion 0.3 m, distal portion 1.2 m and terminal club 1 to 1.2 m long; on mouth arms a very few small clubs; filaments only on scapulets, faintly developed; ring canal poorly developed, intracircular canal system noticeably broad, its inner margin parallel to the outline of the stomach, with many anastomoses with the rhopalar.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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 Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Kramp, P.L. 1961. (Ref. 2992)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.