Cyanea tzetlinii

Cyanea tzetlinii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Semaeostomeae
Family: Cyaneidae
Genus: Cyanea
Species: C. tzetlinii
Binomial name
Cyanea tzetliniii
Kolbasova & Neretina, 2015

Cyanea tzetlinii is a species of jellyfish in the family Cyaneidae.[1]

Distribution

This species is found in the White Sea.

Description

Cyanea tzetlinii distinguishes from all previously described Cyanea species by an eye-spot-bearing bulb formed at the base of each rhopalium. This well-recognizable morphological characteristic is supported at the molecular level by a substantial genetic distance in mitochondrial (CO1: 9.6–10.6%, 16S RNA: 3.1–3.5%) as well as nuclear (ITS: 5.0%, 18S RNA: 0.1%) loci, making it the sister species to Cyanea capillata.

References

  1. Glafira D. Kolbasova; Arthur O. Zalevsky; Azamat R. Gafurov; Philipp O. Gusev; Margarita A. Ezhova; Anna A. Zheludkevich; Olga P. Konovalova; Ksenia N. Kosobokova; Nikita U. Kotlov; Natalia O. Lanina; Anna S. Lapashina; Dmitry O. Medvedev; Katerina S. Nosikova; Ekaterina O. Nuzhdina; Georgii A. Bazykin; Tatyana V. Neretina (2015). "A new species of Cyanea jellyfish sympatric to C. capillata in the White Sea". Polar Biol. doi:10.1007/s00300-015-1707-y.


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