Cassiopea frondosa, Upsidedown jellyfish
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Cassiopea frondosa   (Pallas, 1774)

Upsidedown jellyfish

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Scyphozoa | Rhizostomeae | Cassiopeidae

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

Bentopelagisk; djupintervall 0 - 10 m (Ref. 116114).  Subtropical

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Western Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 26.0 cm WD hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 2992)

Short description Morfologi

12 to 26 cm wide; no concavity at center of exumbrella; always 12 rhopalis; 60 short, nearly straight edged marginal lappets; mouth-arms three-fourths the length of bell radius; scattered uniformly between the mouths are 30 to 40 small, leaf-shaped vesicles.

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Found in estuarine, soft substrate, symbiotic (Ref. 116114).

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

Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, D.G. Fautin, P.R. Pugh, C.E. Mills, W.C. Jaap, M.N. Arai, S.H.D. Haddock and D.M. Opresko 2003 Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophore, Second Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no,28. XI+115. With CD-ROM. (Ref. 1663)

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

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (16 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.