Diplulmaris antarctica

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Diplulmaris antarctica
Ice planet and antarctic jellyfish (cropped).jpg
Diplulmaris antarctica offshore from Dumont d'Urville Station, in the Géologie Archipelago.
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Semaeostomeae
Family: Ulmaridae
Genus: Diplulmaris
Species:
D. antarctica
Binomial name
Diplulmaris antarctica
Maas, 1908

Diplulmaris antarctica is a species of Antarctic jellyfish in the family Ulmaridae.[1]

Description[]

Diplulmaris antarctica with amphipods, offshore from McMurdo Station, Ross Island

This species grows up to 18 cm (7 in) in diameter.[2] Diplulmaris antarctica has 16 - 48 laterally compressed, white tentacles and a white frontal lobe. It has reddish-orange stomach gastrodermis and frilled oral arms of the same colour.

This jellyfish is normally infested with . These hyperiid amphipods appear as white dots on the surface of the bell, and do not appear to eat the medusa.[3]

Diet[]

Diplulmaris antarctica feeds on copepods, euphausiid larvate, medusae, ctenophore, fish larvae,[2] and molluscan pteropods such as Clione antarctica[4] and Limacina antarctica.[4]

Distribution[]

This species is found in Antarctica including the Antarctic Peninsula in continental shelf waters near the surface.

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.sealifebase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=44408
  2. ^ a b "Under the Antarctic Ice--Jellyfish". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  3. ^ "eScholarship: Cnidaria – Scyphozoa: jellyfish". Repositories.cdlib.org. 1998-04-01. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  4. ^ a b Larson R. J. & Harbison G. R. (1990). "Medusae from Mcmurdo Sound, Ross Sea including the descriptions of two new species, Leuckartiara brownei and Benthocodon hyalinus". Polar Biology 11(1): 19-25. doi:10.1007/BF00236517.

Further reading[]

  • Pelagic Scyphomedusae (Scyphozoa: Coronatae and Semaeostomeae) of the Southern Ocean. RJ Larson. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 1986
  • Antarctic Ecology, Volume 1. MW Holdgate, ed. NY: Academic Press, 1970. pp244–258
  • Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique 73(2):139-158, 1997; 5: Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique 73(2):123-124, 1997
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