Olindias phosphorica

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Olindias phosphorica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Limnomedusae
Family: Olindiidae
Genus: Olindias
Species:
O. phosphorica
Binomial name
Olindias phosphorica
(Delle Chiaje, 1841) [1]
Synonyms
  • Olindias muelleriGraeffe, 1884

Olindias phosphorica (syn. Olindias muelleri) [2] , or cigar jellyfish, is a species of hydrozoan from the central and eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. [3] The Mediterranean sea is a predominantly warm body of water, thus O. phosphorica is a warm-water Jellyfish. Global warming has facilitated the proliferation of the species throughout the Mediterranean sea. [4]

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Feeding

A Cigar Jellyfish's diet consists of plankton mostly. [5]

Size

Their umbrellas grow up to 8 centimeter, have 100-120 secondary tentacles and 30-60 primary tentacles. Their stings do not cause much damage. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Olindias phosphorica. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ↑ "Olindias muelleri". World Register of Marine Species.
  3. ↑ Vella, Matthew (30 July 2010). "Jellyfish spotting campaign reports uncommon 'blue button' and 'cigar' species". MaltaToday. Retrieved 16 March 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ Gravili, C. (December 2011), New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records, vol. 12, pp. 491–508, doi: 10.12681/mms.48
  5. 1 2 Santhanam, Ramasamy (2020). Biology and Ecology of Venomous Marine Cnidarians. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. pp. 56–57. ISBN   978-981-15-1602-3.


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