Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-gtxcr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-17T09:40:36.288Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2020

Pralaya Ranjan Behera Open the ORCID record for Pralaya Ranjan Behera [Opens in a new window] ,
M. A. Jishnudev ,
Raju Saravanan ,
Subal Kumar Roul Open the ORCID record for Subal Kumar Roul [Opens in a new window] ,
Shubhadeep Ghosh ,
V. Uma Mahesh  and
K. K. Joshi
Pralaya Ranjan Behera*
Affiliation:
Visakhapatnam Regional Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh530003, India
M. A. Jishnudev
Affiliation:
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala682018, India
Raju Saravanan
Affiliation:
Mandapam Regional Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mandapam, Tamil Nadu623520, India
Subal Kumar Roul
Affiliation:
Puri Field Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Puri, Odisha, India
Shubhadeep Ghosh
Affiliation:
Visakhapatnam Regional Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh530003, India
V. Uma Mahesh
Affiliation:
Visakhapatnam Regional Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh530003, India
K. K. Joshi
Affiliation:
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala682018, India
*
Author for correspondence: Pralaya Ranjan Behera, E-mail: beherapralaya213@gmail.com
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

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.

Keywords

Bay of BengalDiscomedusaeedible jellyfishIndian Oceanre-description and rhizostome jellyfish
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 100 , Issue 5 , August 2020 , pp. 691 - 699
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2020

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Anderson, MJ, Gorley, RN and Clarke, KR (2008) PERMANOVA+ for PRIMER: Guide to Software and Statistical Methods. Plymouth: PRIMER-E.Google Scholar
Behera, PR, Raju, SS, Jishnudev, MA, Shubhadeep, G and Saravanan, R (2020) Emerging jellyfish fisheries along Central South East coast of India. Ocean and Coastal Management 191, 1–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Billett, DSM, Bett, BJ, Jacobs, CL, Rouse, IP and Wigham, BD (2006) Mass deposition of jellyfish in the deep Arabian Sea. Limnology and Oceanography 51, 2077–2083.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chun, C (1896) Beitragezur Kenntnissostafrikanischer Medusen und Siphonophorennach den Sammlungen Dr. Stuhlmann's. Zum Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, Jahrgang 13, 1–19.Google Scholar
Collins, AG, Jarms, G and Morandini, AC (2020) World List of Scyphozoa. Crambionella Stiasny, 1921. Accessed through World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206598 on 2019-04-20.Google Scholar
Daryanabard, R and Dawson, MN (2008) Jellyfish blooms: Crambionella orsini (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) in the Gulf of Oman, Iran, 2002–2003. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88, 477–483.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kitamura, M and Omori, M (2010) Synopsis of edible jellyfishes collected from Southeast Asia, with notes on jellyfish fisheries. Plankton and Benthos Research 5, 106–108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kramp, PL (1956) Medusae of the Iranian Gulf. Videnskabelige Meddelelserfra Dansk Naturhistorik Forening 118, 235–242.Google Scholar
Kramp, PL (1961) Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40, 7–382.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Menon, MGK (1930) The Scyphomedusae of Madras and the Neighboring Coast, Vol. 3. Bulletin of the Madras Government, New Series, Natural History Section.Google Scholar
Menon, MGK (1936) Scyphomedusae of the Krusadai Island, Vol. 1. Bulletin of the Madras Government, New Series, Natural History Section.Google Scholar
Morandini, AC and Marques, AC (2010) Revision of the genus Chrysaora Peron & Lesueur, 1810 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Zootaxa 2464, 1–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nair, KK (1946) Medusae of Travancore and their Correlation with Inshore Fishing, Vol. 32. Proceedings of the First Indian Science Congress.Google Scholar
Nawroth, JC, Feit, KE, Colin, SP, Costello, JH and Dabiri, JO (2010). Phenotypic plasticity in juvenile jellyfish medusa facilitates effective animal fluid interaction. Biology Letters 6, 389–393.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Neethling, S, Channing, A, Gershwin, LA and Gibbons, MJ (2011) A modern description of Crambionella stuhlmanni (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) from St Lucia Estuary, South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91, 357–367.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nishikawa, J, Thu, NT, Yusoff, FM, Lindsay, DJ, Mulyadi, M, Mujiono, N, Ohtsuka, S and Nishida, S (2009) Jellyfish fisheries in Southeast Asia with special reference to those in Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. Kaiyo Monthly 41, 401–411. [In Japanese].Google Scholar
Nishikawa, J, Ohtsuka, S, Mulyadi, M, Mujiono, N, Lindsay, DJ, Miyamoto, H and Nishida, S (2014) A new species of the commercially harvested jellyfish Crambionella (Scyphozoa) from central Java, Indonesia with remarks on the fisheries. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 95, 471–481.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perissinotto, R, Taylor, RH, Carrasco, NK and Fox, C (2013) Observations on the bloom-forming jellyfish Crambionella stuhlmanni (Chun, 1896) in the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa. African Invertebrates 54, 161–170.Google Scholar
Ranson, G (1945) Les Scyphomeduses de la collection du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris. II. Catalogue raisonne; origine des recoltes. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris 16, 312–320.Google Scholar
Rao, HS (1931) Notes on Scyphomedusae in the Indian museum. Records of the Indian Museum 33, 25–62.Google Scholar
Ras, V, Neethling, S, Engelbrecht, A, Morandini, AC, Bayha, KM, Skrypzeck, H and Gibbons, MJ (2020) There are three species of Chrysaora (Scyphozoa: Discomedusae) in the Benguela upwelling ecosystem, not two. Zootaxa 4778, 401–438.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sarkar, J, Talukdar, S, Dutta, A and Ramakrishna, (2002) Occurrence of Crambionella annandalei Rao, a scyphozoan jellyfish (Rhizostomae: Catostylidae) from Digha Coast, Midnapore, West Bengal. Record of Zoological Survey of India 100, 31–33.Google Scholar
Stiasny, G (1920) Die Scyphomedusen-Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseums in Leiden. III. Rhizostomeae. Zoologische Mededeelingen 5, 213–230.Google Scholar
Stiasny, G (1921) Studien uber Rhizostomeen. Capita Zoologica 1, 129–130.Google Scholar
Stiasny, G (1922) Ergebnisse der Nachuntersuchungeiniger Rhizostomeer-Typen Haeckel's und Chun's aus dem zoologischen Museum in Hamburg. Zooogische Mededelingen 7, 41–60.Google Scholar
Stiasny, G (1937) Scyphomedusae. John Murray Expedition 1933–1934. Scientific Reports 4, 203–242.Google Scholar
Vanhoffen, E (1888) Untersuchungen uber semaeostome und rhizostome Medusen. Bibliotheca, Zoologica 3, 1–52.Google Scholar