Cyanea capillata, Lion's mane

Cyanea capillata   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lion's mane

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Κοινά ονόματα | Συνώνυμα | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Scyphozoa | Semaeostomeae | Cyaneidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / εύρος βάθους / distribution range Οικολογία

Πελαγικό(ά); εύρος βάθους 0 - 85 m (Αναφ. 116114).  Boreal; 81°N - 47°N, 34°W - 69°E

Distribution Χώρες | Περιοχές FAO | Οικοσυστήματα | Παρουσίες | Εισαγωγές

Arctic and Northeast Atlantic: from Iceland to France, north to Svalbard and east to Russia.

Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Weight / Age

Γεννητική Ωρίμανση: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 229 cm WD αρσενικό/απροσδιόριστο; (Αναφ. 99323)

Short description Μορφολογία

Diameter up to 100 cm; rhopalar and tentacular stomach pouches completely separated; peripheral canals more or less curved; without or with very few anastomoses; color reddish brown or yellowish.

Βιολογία     Γλωσσάρι (π.χ. epibenthic)

The tentacle of the longest medusozoa meaures 36.6 m (Ref. 99323). The largest specimen observed was 2 meters wide (Ref. 121705). Estuarine, potentially pathogenic (Ref. 116114).

Life cycle and mating behavior Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Eggs | Γονιμότητα | 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 Αναφορές | Συντονιστής | Συνεργάτες

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 Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophore, Second Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no,28. XI+115. With CD-ROM. (Αναφ. 1663)

IUCN Red List Status (Αναφ. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Αναφ. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Αναφ. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Population dynamics
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Mass conversion
Αφθονία
Life cycle
Αναπαραγωγή
Γεννητική Ωρίμανση
Γονιμότητα
Γεννοβολία
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
Distribution
Physiology
Κατανάλωση οξυγόνου

Διαδικτυακές πηγές

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Δέντρο Ζωής | Wikipedia (Go, αναζήτηση) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Fishing Vulnerability (Αναφ. 71543): Very high vulnerability (90 of 100).
Price category (Αναφ. 80766): Unknown.