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Morphologic and molecular redescription of Catostylus mosaicus conservativus (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Catostylidae) from south-east Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2005

Michael N Dawson
Michael N Dawson
Affiliation:
School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Present address: Section of Evolution and Ecology, Division of Biological Sciences, Storer Hall, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Abstract

Two reciprocally monophyletic mitochondrial clades of the commercially valuable jellyfish Catostylus mosaicus are endemic to south-eastern Australia. Here, medusae in the two clades are shown to differ also in colour and in the dimensions of their papillae, oral disk, and bell depth. They are referred to two varieties recognized in 1884 by von Lendenfeld. The clade occupying localities adjacent to Bass Strait is redescribed as subspecies C. mosaicus conservativus; the clade from New South Wales and southern Queensland spans the type locality (Port Jackson) of C. mosaicus and is designated C. mosaicus mosaicus. Their ecology and colour, in the context of von Lendenfeld's original descriptions, and the implications for fisheries are discussed.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , June 2005 , pp. 723 - 731
Copyright
© 2005 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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