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Aequorea macrodactyla Jellyfish

Aequorea macrodactylais commonly referred to as Jellyfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
14937 
AphiaID:
117271 
Scientific:
Aequorea macrodactyla 
German:
Hydrozoon, Hydromeduse 
English:
Jellyfish 
Category:
Jellyfish  
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Leptothecata (Order) > Aequoreidae (Family) > Aequorea (Genus) > macrodactyla (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Brandt, ), 1835 
Occurrence:
Suez-Kanal, Hong Kong, (the) Maldives, Arabian Sea, Argentina, Belize, Borneo (Kalimantan), Brazil, Chile, China, Circum temperate, Circumglobal, Circumtropic, Columbia, Corea, East China Sea, English Channel, Gulf of Aqaba / Gulf of Eliat, Gulf of Bengal / Bay of Bengal, Gulf of California, Indian Ocean, Invasive Species, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Lessepsian migrant, Lybia, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, Philippines, Red Sea, South America, South China Sea, Sulawesi, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, The Ryukyu Islands, West Africa, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
0 - 4000 Meter 
Size:
up to 3.94" (10 cm) 
Temperature:
1,8 °F - 82.76 °F (1,8°C - 28.2°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Crustacean larvae , Invertebrates, Predatory, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-06-28 09:55:53 

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Hydrozoans are a class of cnidarians (Cnidaria) with the 3 orders Hydrozoonea, Siphonophora (state jellyfishes), and Trachylina and includes about 2,700 mostly marine species, plus the freshwater polyps called hydra.

Mesonema macrodactyla is a colonial hydroid that has polyps with a wide variety of functions,
The polyps are specialized for their biological functions, such as catching edible plankton, digesting the captured plankton (trophozoids), reproduction (gonozooids), defense (dactylozooids).

Aequorea macrodactyla has between 10 and 30 tentacles.
The color of the hydrozoan is transparent-white, bluish, violet, in the darkness they are particularly well visible due to the unique green fluorescent protein (GFP).

Reaches an umbrella diameter of up to 10 cm.

"Some jellyfish of this class can rejuvenate themselves," Dr. Gur Mizrahi of Haifa University is quoted by Haaretz, "after reaching adulthood and giving birth to offspring, they are able to return to the state of an embryo."

The Encyclopedia of Life gives Aequorea macrodactlya a maximum depth distribution of 4,963 meters.

Synonyms:
Aequorea maldivensis Browne, 1905
Mesonema (Mesonema) macrodactyla Brandt, 1835
Polycanna purpurostoma Agassiz & Mayer, 1899

Scientific paper

  1. First record of the hydromedusaAequorea macrodactyla(Leptothecata: Aequoreidae) in Brazilian waters, Nogueira Júnior, Miodeli; Brandini, Frederico Pereira; Haddad, Maria Angélica , 2016
  2. Bioluminescence ofAequorea macrodactyla,a Common Jellyfish Species in the East China Sea, Ning-Shao Xia,Wen-Xin Luo,Jun Zhang,Xiao-Yan Xie,Hai-Jie Yang…, 2002

External links

  1. Bioluminescent Jellyfish (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  2. Census of Cnidaria (Medusozoa) and Ctenophora from South American marine waters (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  3. First record of Aequorea macrodactyla (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Israeli coast of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, an alien species indicating invasive pathways (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  4. First record of the hydromedusa Aequorea macrodactyla (Leptothecata: Aequoreidae) in Brazilian waters (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  5. Hydromedusan fauna of the Nansei Islands (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  6. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  7. Japanese jellyfish paints Israeli coast green (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  8. Jellyfish as products and problems of aquaculture (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.
  9. Systematic notes on some leptomedusa species with a description of Neotima galeai n. spec. (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) (en). Abgerufen am 27.06.2022.

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