Rhopilema verrilli
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Rhopilema verrilli    
Mushroom jellyfish
   
Rhopilema   verrilli  (Fewkes, 1887)  
Family:   Rhizostomatidae ()
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Order:   Rhizostomeae  ()
Class:   Scyphozoa
SeaLifeBase name: Mushroom jellyfish
Max. size:   35.0 cm WD (male/unsexed; (Ref. 2992)
Environment:   pelagic; marine
Climate: subtropical
Importance:   price category: not marketed/unknown
Resilience:  
Vulnerability:  Low vulnerability (25), based on Lmax and K (Ref. 71543)
Distribution:  
Gazetteer
Western Atlantic: USA and Canada.
Morphology:   35 m wide, thick and rigid; centre of exumbrella smooth, lappets with many shallow furrows, and near margin numerous minute elevations; in each octant 6 large oval velar lappets mouth arms with 26 to 60 blunt, spindle-shaped appendages besprinkled with nematocyst warts, each arm with a large, tapering terminal appendage.
Biology:  
Red List Status: Not in IUCN Red List (Ref. 7800)
Dangerous:   harmless
Main Ref:   Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, D.G. Fautin, P.R. Pugh, et.al. 2003. (Ref. 1663)

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Modified:
Dar, Christine
Entered:
Dar, Christine

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