Phacellophora camtschatica   Brandt, 1835

Fried egg jellyfish

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Scyphozoa | Semaeostomeae | Ulmaridae | Aureliinae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthopelagic; depth range 50 - 330 m (Ref. 116551).  Subtropical; 68°N - 48°S, 122°E - 63°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Arctic. Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean: from China to Alaska, south to Argentina and east to Oman.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 60.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)

Short description Morphology

Up to 50 to 60 cm wide; 16 wide, simple velar lappets containing 5 to 8 simple, blindly ending centrifugal canals; tentacles in 16 clusters arising in a single row below the ring canal, each group curved with the concavity outwards.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Reported to have symbiotic hyperiids on its subumbrella (Ref. 116551).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | 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 References | Coordinator | Collaborators

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. (Ref. 1663)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Estimates based on models

Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.