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Biology

direct development
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Comprehensive Description

Biology

A two-tentacled widespread deep-water jelly
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clear translucent to pale-blue; 2 tentacles emerge well above the bell margin; 2 stomach pouches per quadent
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Distribution

circum-(sub)tropical
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Arctic Ocean, European waters (ERMS scope), Gulf of Mexico, Kenya, New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, North West Atlantic
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Ecology

Habitat

Mesopelagic
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Epipelagic
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Depth range based on 130 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 123 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 2725
  Temperature range (°C): -1.525 - 13.217
  Nitrate (umol/L): 12.159 - 43.616
  Salinity (PPS): 33.643 - 35.004
  Oxygen (ml/l): 0.153 - 8.065
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.886 - 3.485
  Silicate (umol/l): 3.630 - 152.509

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Depth range (m): 0 - 2725

Temperature range (°C): -1.525 - 13.217

Nitrate (umol/L): 12.159 - 43.616

Salinity (PPS): 33.643 - 35.004

Oxygen (ml/l): 0.153 - 8.065

Phosphate (umol/l): 0.886 - 3.485

Silicate (umol/l): 3.630 - 152.509
 
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Cosmopolitan in deep waters; Observed in the Arctic by ROVs between 500 and 3000 m but uncommon in net collections because of low abundances; Recent molecular work suggests this is a species complex, each with regional affinities
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Trophic Strategy

Diet is unknown, but other narcomedusae are known to feed primarily on other gelantinous taxa
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Life History and Behavior

Life Cycle

Holplanktonic, likely with a distinct "larval" stage; generation time likely one year, life expectancy unknown
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Wikipedia

Solmundella bitentaculata

Solmundella bitentaculata is a species of narcomedusa jellyfish in the family Aeginidae.[1]

Distribution

This species is found in:

Ecology

Solmundella bitentaculata is an epipelagic and mesopelagic species.[1]

Solmundella bitentaculata feeds on the gastropod Limacina antarctica.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b WoRMS (2010). Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). In: Schuchert, P. World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267 on 2011-01-31
  2. ^ a b Larson R. J. & Harbison G. R. (1990). "Medusae from Mcmurdo Sound, Ross Sea including the descriptions of two new species, Leuckartiara brownei and Benthocodon hyalinus". Polar Biology 11(1): 19-25. doi:10.1007/BF00236517.
  3. ^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267
  4. ^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267
  5. ^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267
  6. ^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267
  7. ^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267
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