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. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 100(5): 691-699.

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10.1017/s0025315420000703 [view]

Behera, P. R.; Jishnudev, M. A.; Saravanan, R.; Roul, S. K.; Ghosh, S.; Uma Mahesh, V.; Joshi, K. K.

2020

100(5): 691-699

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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420000703

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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.

Indian Ocean

Scyphozoa

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