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Chiropsalmus buitendijki

Scientific Name:-
Chiropsalmus buitendijki

Common Name:-
Box jellyfish

Malayalam Name:-

Category:-
Cnidaria

Status:-
Not evaluated


Description:-

Bell more or less conical with the apex slightly arched. The pedalia are attached at the 4 perradial corner of the bell about 10mm.main shaft of the pedalia are sickle-shaped, laterally compressed and almost long as the bell height.9-10 tentacle bearing branches forming a decreased series, the smallest being the outside. the gastric cirri are well developed in the inter-radial corner of the stomach as 4 horse shoe-shaped bands.

Threats:-

Not recorded

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References:-

Nair, K.K. 1946. Medusae of Travancore and their correlation with inshore fishing. Proc. First Indian Sci. Congress 32:97.
Nair, K.K. 195 1. Medusa of the Trivandrum coast. Pt. I-Systematics. Bull. Central Res. Inst. , Univ. Travancore, Sec. C, (I), 47-75




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