Catostylus mosaicus, Mosaic sea jelly : fisheries
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Catostylus mosaicus   (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

Mosaic sea jelly
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Scyphozoa | Rhizostomeae | Catostylidae

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

Pelagic-neritic; depth range 0 - 1 m (Ref. 3046).  Tropical; 25°N - 48°S, 67°E - 160°E

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific: from Pakistan, Australia north to Philippines and east to Lord Howe Island.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 12 - ? cm Max length : 35.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 3083)

Short description Morphology

25 to 35 cm wide; exumbrella with coarse granulations; about 16 lappets in each octant, all alike; arm-disk some-what wider than bell radius; moutharms about 1.5 times as long as bell radius, proximal portion on one-sixth as long as the distal, tapering, three winged portion; outer edges branch profusely and taper to a pointed end below; no appendages, intracircular network rather narrow, with nearly radial meshes, extracircular network very wide and fine-meshed, extending into the lappets.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Depth estimate based on ecology. Occurs commonly in estuaries, semi-enclosed coastal waters (Ref. 3046) like lagoons and shallow bays where it is abundant (Ref. 3048). Occurs in an estuarine front (Ref. 3046). Found at a depth of <1 m (Refs. 3046, 122801, 122802).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Medusae; gonochoristic (Ref. 3048). Can live for up to 13 months; within 1 to 3 months can grow to sexual maturity.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Pitt, K.A. and M.J. Kingsford 2003 Temporal and spatial variation in recruitment and growth of medusae of the jellyfish, Catostylus mosaicus (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae). Marine and Freshwater Research 54:117-125. (Ref. 3046)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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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

Resilience
(Ref. 69278):		 High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.6-2.28; tm=0)
Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 Low vulnerability (17 of 100).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):		 Unknown.