Rhopilema hispidum   (Vanhöffen, 1888)

Sand jellyfish
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Rhopilema hispidum

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

Scyphozoa | Rhizostomeae | Rhizostomatidae

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

Pelagic-neritic.  Tropical; 45°N - 20°S, 44°E - 146°E (Ref. 121705)

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific: from Gulf of Aden north to Japan and east to Pacific..

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 70.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 121705)

Short description Morphology

25 to 34 cm wide, exumbrella with numerous small, sharp-pointed, conical projections; in each octant about eight valer lappets, oblong, rounded; moutharms terminante in a lrge clubshaped appendage with a faceted, swollen end, other club-shaped appendages between the mouths on the three wings.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Depth estimate based on habitat data from its ecology. Found in coastal waters (Refs. 63414, 122791), in a bay (Ref. 122790) and estuary (Ref. 122791). Commensals: host to a few fishes (carangid, eel larvae, ponyfish), a shrimp, a crab, a copepod, and a flatworm (Ref. 116535). Also associated with the ophiuroid Ophiocnemis marmorata Ref. 122791).

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)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Internet sources

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

Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (24 of 100).