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Lucernaria australis Vanhöffen, 1908
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Staurozoa | Stauromedusae | Lucernariidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Benthopelagic. Polar
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Northwest Atlantic: Antarctic (Gauss station) and Greenland.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 0.9 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)
Short description Morphology
Calyx timble shaped, with sloping sdes, up to 9 cm wide and slightly more in height; peduncle almost rudimentary; perradial notches between arms somewhat wider and deeper than the interradial; arms short, each with up to 100 short tentacles; gonads very broad, extending to base of arms.
Species recorded below a 200 meter depth (Ref. 116634).
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.
Main reference
References | Coordinator | Collaborators
Kramp, P.L. 1961. (Ref. 2992)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Stamps, coins, misc.
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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, Search) | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
Price category
(Ref. 80766):
Unknown.