Jellyfish are becoming an increasingly important component of studies the global marine environment, as their frequent mass phenomena affect ecosystem performance and have economic health consequences. Recent research has focused primarily on occurrences scyphozoans ctenophores, while less attention been paid to hydromedusae blooms, which can also significant impacts with Like many members Scyp...

Abstract The Indo-Pacific is recognized as a hotspot for marine diversity. taxonomy of certain taxa, such Discomedusae jellyfish, has been neglected, despite its importance in the fishery industry. This study documents first records Java Sea using an integrative approach and provide notes about distribution area. We used up to 53 morphological meristic characters amplified one mitochondrial mar...

The nomenclature of the purple-striped jelly® sh from southern California, currently known as Pelagia colorataRussell, 1964, is apparently in error. Our cladistic analysis of 20 characters for 15 pelagiid species indicates that P. colorata shares a common evolutionary history with members of the genus Chrysaora. There appears to be a number of characters shared among species of Chrysaora due to...