Dawson, M. N. (2005). Morphologic and molecular redescription of Catostylus mosaicus conservativus (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Catostylidae) from south-east Australia. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 85(3): 723-731.
Morphologic and molecular redescription of <em>Catostylus mosaicus conservativus</em> (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Catostylidae) from south-east Australia
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
85(3): 723-731
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Two reciprocally monophyletic mitochondrial clades of the commercially valuable jellyfish
Catostylus mosaicus are endemic to south-eastern Australia. Here, medusae in the two clades are
shown to differ also in colour and in the dimensions of their papillae, oral disk, and bell depth.
They are referred to two varieties recognized in 1884 by von Lendenfeld. The clade occupying
localities adjacent to Bass Strait is redescribed as subspecies C. mosaicus conservativus; the clade from
New South Wales and southern Queensland spans the type locality (Port Jackson) of C. mosaicus and
is designated C. mosaicus mosaicus. Their ecology and colour, in the context of von Lendenfeld’s original
descriptions, and the implications for fisheries are discussed.