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Bibliographic resource

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Journal article

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AS

Title

Redescription of the enigmatic jellyfish, Crambionella annandalei (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from Indian waters

Abstract

The catostylid jellyfish, Crambionella annandalei was originally described by Rao (1932) based on a preserved specimen collected from the Andaman Sea. Since then, no detailed taxonomic studies have been conducted and the species is often misidentified. Here, we provide a detailed morphological re-description of C. annandalei from fresh material collected at a variety of locations along the east coast of India. The species can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of morphological characters, the most important of which are the proportion of terminal club length to oral arm length (0.48 ± 0.031), the proportion of the distal portion of the oral arm to naked proximal portion (7.25 ± 0.268) and the body colour. The occurrence of intra-specific colour variation in fresh specimens was also observed in the present study.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000574190400003

Bibliographic citation

Behera, P.R.; Jishnudev, M.A.; Saravanan, R.; Roul, S.K.; Ghosh, S.; Uma Mahesh, V.; Joshi, K.K. (2020). Redescription of the enigmatic jellyfish, Crambionella annandalei (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from Indian waters. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 100(5): 691-699. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315420000703

Topic

Marine

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true