Rhopilema verrilli

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Rhopilema verrilli     Mushroom jellyfish

Rhopilema   verrilli  (Fewkes, 1887)
Family:	Rhizostomatidae ()			No SeaLifeBase picture available. Search Google Images.
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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