Maintenance, feeding and growth of Carybdea marsupialis (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in the laboratory

Acevedo, Melissa; Fuentes, Verónica; Olariaga, Alejandro; Canepa, Antonio; Bosch-Belmar, Mar; Bordehore, César; Calbet, Albert

doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2012.10.007

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“…Based on this, we emphasize the need of studies focusing on the biology and ecology of cubozoans, like Acevedo et al (2013), Colins et al (Stiasny, 1926) collected from Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan. The specimen was anesthetized.…”

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Mass occurrence of the cubomedusa Copula sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) at Seto Harbor, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan, in summer of 2013; a possible recent example of global warming

Morandini¹,

Stampar²,

Kubota³

2014

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More than 200 very young medusae of Copula sivickisi (Stiasny) were collected within totally 60 minutes at two nights in June, 2013 at the Seto Harbor, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan. This mass occurrence might be related to recent global warming at Shirahama, known as the northernmost distributional locality of this cubozoan species. It is assumed that the polyp stage of this species may live in the surrounding areas, because there jellyfish were small size (most are less than 1.6 mm height) that was conceivable as the newly released one from the polyp.

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Mass occurrence of the cubomedusa Copula sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) at Seto Harbor, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan, in summer of 2013; a possible recent example of global warming

Morandini¹,

Stampar²,

Kubota³

2014

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“…Little is known about Carybdea spp. behaviour and ecology Nogueira & Haddad 2008;Acevedo et al 2013;Kingsford & Mooney 2014), while the effects of its toxin have been studied to a greater degree. Bathers stung by C. marsupialis are reported to have suffered from severe local pain, cutaneous reactions, characterized by erythematous-vascular linear wheals, and an intense burning sensation (Kokelj et al 1992;Rottini et al 1995;Peca et al 1997;Sánchez-Rodríguez et al 2006;Bordehore et al 2014).…”

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First records ofCarybdea marsupialisproliferation (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) along the eastern Tunisian coast (Central Mediterranean)

Gueroun

Acevedo

Yahia

et al. 2015

Italian Journal of Zoology

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The cubozoan jellyfish Carybdea marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 is recorded for the first time from the eastern Tunisian coast (Hammamet beach). A few specimens (three adult individuals) were first recorded in July 2005. In spite of several jellyfish monitoring campaigns carried out along the Tunisian coasts in recent years, new records of C. marsupialis from the same location were only made years later, in July and August 2014, consisting of aggregations of adult jellyfish (mean density of 1.1 ± 1.0 ind. m −3 ), which may pose a severe threat to bathers due to their painful stings. The mean morphometric parameter values from 55 C. marsupialis specimens sampled during the same period are reported here, and the possible causes for box jellyfish proliferation in the Hammamet coastal zone are also discussed.

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“…After 2008, abundances of cubomedusae in this area have shown high inter-annual variability. For instance, the mean density of C. marsupialis in 2010-2011 was 0.8 ind m −3 [12], but 0.17 ind m −3 in 2013 [13]. More recently, this species has been found in Malta [14] and off the east coast of Tunisia, with an average of 1.1 ind m −3 and a maximum of 1.8 ind m −3 [15].…”

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“…The seasonality and lifecycle of C. marsupialis have been studied in the scope of the LIFE CUBOMED Project on the Spanish Mediterranean coast [12,13,16]. The life cycle of this cubozoan alternates between a planktonic stage as a sexually-reproductive cubomedusa and an asexually-reproductive benthic stage as a cubopolyp.…”

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“…Previous analyses of the abundance and distribution of C. marsupialis at 0.5-1 m depth off Dénia showed an inverse relationship between medusa abundance and salinity [16] and occurrence of this species in conditions of low salinity, high coastal productivity (Chl- a and phosphate) and optimal physical conditions (wind current speed and direction) [12]. Medusa outbreaks also were linked with anthropogenic nutrient inputs (N, P and Si) and high productivity [13]. We built on these earlier works to focus on the distribution of juvenile C. marsupialis , by use of a more detailed sampling grid that included points at different depths in the water column and three distances from the coast to overcome the spatial restrictions pointed out by Canepa et al [12].…”

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Effects of environmental variables on the distribution of juvenile cubomedusaeCarybdea marsupialisin the coastal Western Mediterranean

Bordehore

Fonfría

Alonso

et al. 2020

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Relationships between environmental factors and oscillations in jellyfish abundance, especially in the early life stages, could help to interpret past increases and also predict scenarios in a changing future. For the first time, we present cubozoan spatial and temporal distributions in the earliest stages and their relationships with different factors. Abundances of Carybdea marsupialis medusae showed high interannual variability from 2008 to 2014 along the Dénia coast (SE Spain, W Mediterranean). During 2015, samples were collected from 11 beaches along 17 km of coastline, 8 times from January to November in order to determine the effects of environmental factors on the distribution of juvenile C. marsupialis. Juveniles (≤ 15 mm diagonal bell width) were present from May to July, with more sampled near shore (0 – 15 m). Most of them occurred in June when their numbers were unequal among beaches (average 0.05 ind m−3, maximum 6.71 ind m−3). We tested distributions of juveniles over time and space versus temperature, salinity, nutrients (N, P and Si), chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), and zooplankton abundance. Temperature and cladocerans (zooplankton group) were significantly positively correlated with juvenile distribution, whereas Chl-a concentration was weakly negative. By contrast, in 2014, high productivity areas (Chl-a and zooplankton) overlapped the maximum adult abundance (5.2 ind m−3). The distribution of juveniles during 2015 did not spatially coincide with the areas where ripe adults were located the previous year, suggesting that juveniles drift with the currents upon release from the cubopolyps. Our results yield important insights into the complexity of cubozoan distributions.

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Maintenance, feeding and growth of Carybdea marsupialis (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in the laboratory

Cited by 21 publications

References 31 publications

Mass occurrence of the cubomedusa Copula sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) at Seto Harbor, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan, in summer of 2013; a possible recent example of global warming

Mass occurrence of the cubomedusa Copula sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) at Seto Harbor, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan, in summer of 2013; a possible recent example of global warming

First records ofCarybdea marsupialisproliferation (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) along the eastern Tunisian coast (Central Mediterranean)

Effects of environmental variables on the distribution of juvenile cubomedusaeCarybdea marsupialisin the coastal Western Mediterranean

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