Chrysaora hysoscella, Compass jellyfish
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Chrysaora hysoscella   (Linnaeus,1766)

Compass jellyfish

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Chrysaora hysoscella  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Scyphozoa | Semaeostomeae | Pelagiidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range Ekologi

Pelagiska; djupintervall 0 - 500 m (Ref. 3292), usually 0 - 150 m (Ref. 3292).  Tropical; 13°C - 21°C (Ref. 3292); 60°N - 27°S, 60°W - 15°E (Ref. 3292)

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 20.0 cm WD hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 2992)

Short description Morfologi

Up to 20 cm wide; marginal lappets all alike, semicircular, thin; stomachpouches all of equal width, septa straight; in each octant 3 tentacles, all alike; exumbrella with 16 broad radial brown bands bordered by darker, narrow V-shaped lines; marginal lappets brown.

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Usually found inshore, more dominant at dusk (Figure 3, Ref. 3292).

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Eggs | Fecundity | 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 referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Kramp, P.L. 1961 Synopsis of the medusae of the world. J Mar Biol Ass UK 40:1-469. (Ref. 2992)

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


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Internet-källor

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 8.1 - 15.5, mean 10.8 (based on 1074 cells).
Resiliens (Ref. 69278): Hög, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid mindre än 15 månader (K=1.1-4.3).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.