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Preserved medusa almost flat, with thin transparent mesogleal jelly. Live specimens hemispherical during active swimming strokes (
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). Exumbrella yellow-ochre in colour, homogeneously covered by prominent cnidocyst warts of various shapes, from rounded to oval to pointed, with whitish refringent tip of wart. Sixteen marginal lappets, rectangular, with rounded corners (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2BBC7BA70E27FACD" box="[1173,1306,1269,1294]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1420,1442]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,193,1399]" captionTargetId="figure-276@4.[151,1436,193,1399]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Lateral view. (B) Sublateral view. (C) Aboral view, with prominent exumbrellar cnidocyst warts. (D) Oral view, showing the distinctive horse-shoe shaped white gonads, and overall subumbrellar morphology. rh: rhopalia, rs: radial septa (for clarity, only few labels added)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914981" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914981/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">Figs. 2BD</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2A0F7BA70E76FACD" box="[1318,1355,1269,1294]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1947,1969]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,1124,1926]" captionTargetId="figure-230@5.[151,1436,1124,1926]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Oral view with extended marginal tentacles. (B) Sections of tentacles bases showing occurrence of longitudinal muscular foldings in the tentacles of P. noctiluca (left) compared with absence from P. benovici tentacles (right). Drawings after Krasinska, 1914 (modified)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914983" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914983/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">3A</figureCitation>
). Eight adradial, hollow, white and transparent tentacles, up to three times the diameter of umbrella in length. Large tentacle bases laterally compressed to ovoid, with medio-peripheral main axis, distally tapering into cylindrical shape (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2FCF7A330A50FAB9" box="[230,365,1377,1402]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1420,1442]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,193,1399]" captionTargetId="figure-276@4.[151,1436,193,1399]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Lateral view. (B) Sublateral view. (C) Aboral view, with prominent exumbrellar cnidocyst warts. (D) Oral view, showing the distinctive horse-shoe shaped white gonads, and overall subumbrellar morphology. rh: rhopalia, rs: radial septa (for clarity, only few labels added)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914981" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914981/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">Figs. 2AD</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2E5E7A330AA0FAB9" box="[375,413,1377,1402]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1947,1969]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,1124,1926]" captionTargetId="figure-230@5.[151,1436,1124,1926]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Oral view with extended marginal tentacles. (B) Sections of tentacles bases showing occurrence of longitudinal muscular foldings in the tentacles of P. noctiluca (left) compared with absence from P. benovici tentacles (right). Drawings after Krasinska, 1914 (modified)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914983" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914983/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">3A</figureCitation>
). Absence of longitudinal muscular foldings in tentacle mesoglea (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2BA07A330FDCFAB9" box="[1161,1249,1377,1402]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1947,1969]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,1124,1926]" captionTargetId="figure-230@5.[151,1436,1124,1926]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Oral view with extended marginal tentacles. (B) Sections of tentacles bases showing occurrence of longitudinal muscular foldings in the tentacles of P. noctiluca (left) compared with absence from P. benovici tentacles (right). Drawings after Krasinska, 1914 (modified)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914983" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914983/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">Fig. 3B</figureCitation>
). Eight marginal sensory organs (
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), lacking ocelli, each located in a shallow pit formed by ectodermal outgrowth of the umbrellar margin and by overlapping sides of marginal lappets (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2CB87AFB08CCFA01" box="[913,1009,1449,1474]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1204,1226]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetId="figure-392@6.[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 4. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Rhopaliar pit (rp). (B) Portion of gastrovascular sinus showing radial septa (rs), subumbrellar perradial warts (sw), tentacular (tp) and rhopaliar (rhp) pouches, rhopalia (rh), and rounded marginal lappets. (C) Gastric filaments (gf), horse-shoe shaped gonads (g), and oral arm (oa) covered by transparent warts. (D) Enlargement of ribbon-like gonad (g) covered by cnidocyst warts (nw) bordering the stomach wall with emergent gastric filaments (gf)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914985" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914985/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">Fig. 4A</figureCitation>
). Well-developed coronal muscle on subumbrellar surface. Simple radial septa terminating between sense organs and tentacles, dividing the gastrovascular sinus into 8 tentacular and 8 rhopalial separate pouches, tentacular pouches slightly larger than rhopalial ones (
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). Stomach without gastric septa, with bundles of gastric filaments arranged in interradial groups, originating at the transition between stomach and gastrovascular sinus (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2B4B796B0FFEF991" box="[1122,1219,1593,1618]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1204,1226]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetId="figure-392@6.[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 4. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Rhopaliar pit (rp). (B) Portion of gastrovascular sinus showing radial septa (rs), subumbrellar perradial warts (sw), tentacular (tp) and rhopaliar (rhp) pouches, rhopalia (rh), and rounded marginal lappets. (C) Gastric filaments (gf), horse-shoe shaped gonads (g), and oral arm (oa) covered by transparent warts. (D) Enlargement of ribbon-like gonad (g) covered by cnidocyst warts (nw) bordering the stomach wall with emergent gastric filaments (gf)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914985" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914985/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">Fig. 4C</figureCitation>
). Four interradial, elongated milky white, ribbon-like gonochoric gonads (
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: female), horse-shoe shaped, convex; ribbon protrudes out of subumbrellar surface at periphery of gastric pouches; each ribbon spans two tentacular and one intermediate rhopaliar pouch (
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,
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). Manubrium whitish, transparent, ≤1.5 times the diameter of umbrella in length, with very short oral tube and long delicate oral arms with frilled edges (
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), covered by colourless cnidocyst warts (
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). Perradial subumbrellar surfaces between gonads covered by brownish cnidocyst warts, smaller than exumbrellar warts (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEDED2E2C9678430F07F8E9" box="[959,1082,1809,1834]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1204,1226]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetId="figure-392@6.[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 4. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Rhopaliar pit (rp). (B) Portion of gastrovascular sinus showing radial septa (rs), subumbrellar perradial warts (sw), tentacular (tp) and rhopaliar (rhp) pouches, rhopalia (rh), and rounded marginal lappets. (C) Gastric filaments (gf), horse-shoe shaped gonads (g), and oral arm (oa) covered by transparent warts. (D) Enlargement of ribbon-like gonad (g) covered by cnidocyst warts (nw) bordering the stomach wall with emergent gastric filaments (gf)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914985" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914985/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="458">Fig. 4B, C</figureCitation>
), also scattered over the gonad foldings (
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,
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Cnidome (
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). At least 3 cnidocyst
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: holotrichous O-isorhizas (spherical, length
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; width
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), microbasic euryteles (ovoid, length
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, provisionally identified by light microscopy as heterotrichous microbasic birhopaloid II
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(ovoid, length
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; width
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).
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292FBE7ADE0A28FA62" bold="true" box="[151,277,1420,1442]" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292E377ADE0AF6FA61" box="[286,459,1420,1442]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
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(A) Lateral view. (B) Sublateral view. (C) Aboral view, with prominent exumbrellar cnidocyst warts. (D) Oral view, showing the distinctive horse-shoe shaped white gonads, and overall subumbrellar morphology. rh: rhopalia, rs: radial septa (for clarity, only few labels added).
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292FEE79550A73F9E3" bold="true" box="[199,334,1543,1568]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species is named after the late Prof. Adam Benovic, who dedicated his life to the study of gelatinous plankton, especially in the Adriatic Sea.
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292FEE791D0A58F9AB" bold="true" box="[199,357,1615,1640]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459" reason="1">Type locality.</emphasis>
Gulf of Venice, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea.
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<paragraph id="795636B3FFEAED292FEE79210A34F844" blockId="4.[151,1436,1543,2036]" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292FEE79210A8FF94F" bold="true" box="[199,434,1651,1676]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459" reason="1">Molecular analysis.</emphasis>
Seven COI sequences from
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292C2B792608BDF948" box="[770,896,1651,1675]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P. benovici</emphasis>
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specimens were identical to each other (mean within-species pairwise K2P distance = 0.001, S.E. = 0.001), and significantly dissimilar from the
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14
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292A3E79CA0E11F96C" box="[1303,1324,1688,1711]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P.</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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noctiluca sequences from Mediterranean Sea and South Atlantic Ocean specimens (mean between-species pairwise K2P distance = 0.362, S.E. = 0.040) and from
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8
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292D8379B209FFF934" box="[682,706,1760,1783]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P.</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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cf.
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292DDD79B2085DF934" box="[756,864,1760,1783]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">panopyra</emphasis>
sequences (mean between-species pairwise K2P distance = 0.342, S.E. = 0.038). (
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). Unrooted NJ and
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trees had the same topology (data not shown) including consistently distinct
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292EDF787A0941F8FC" box="[502,636,1831,1855]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292D90787A080BF8FC" box="[697,822,1831,1855]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P. benovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
clades. The COI Bayesian tree (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFEAED292B9B78750E30F883" box="[1202,1293,1831,1856]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="9.[151,250,1880,1902]" captionTargetBox="[230,1333,197,1847]" captionTargetId="figure-113@9.[226,1344,193,1869]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 6. (A) Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo COI gene tree. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. sequences group together as a single distinct clade. (B) Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo tree (28S sequences). Pelagia benovici sp. nov. sequences group appear in each of two clades with P. noctiluca sequences, suggesting incomplete lineage sorting of this more slowly evolving nuclear marker, amplification of paralogues, or interspecific hybridization. The tree supports the monophyly of Pelagiidae. In both panels, numbers at nodes indicate posterior probabilities, and the scale indicates the number of substitutions per site." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914989" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914989/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">Fig. 6A</figureCitation>
) also shows consistent separation of
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292E8D781E0923F8A0" box="[420,542,1867,1891]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P. benovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="50AE57DAFFEAED292D0D78190940F8A7" box="[548,637,1867,1892]" pageId="4" pageNumber="459" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
from any of its morphologically closest relatives,
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292B85781E0E13F8A0" box="[1196,1326,1867,1891]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292A4D781E0E41F8A0" box="[1380,1404,1868,1891]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">P.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292FBE78220A3FF844" box="[151,258,1904,1927]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">panopyra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of 28S (
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) consistently showed the same topology as the NJ and
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analyses of 28S (not shown), including monophyly of the
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFEAED292C4378E508DFF813" authorityName="Gegenbaur" authorityYear="1856" box="[874,994,1975,2000]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="4" pageNumber="459" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="family">Pelagiidae</taxonomicName>
, with all representatives of
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292A1778E50A32F830" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFEAED292A1778E50EAAF80C" authorityName="Peron &amp; Lesueur" authorityYear="1809" box="[1342,1431,1975,1999]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="4" pageNumber="459" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">Pelagia</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFEAED292FBE78890A32F830" box="[151,271,2011,2035]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Chrysaora" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="4" pageNumber="459" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">Chrysaora</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED292E6F78890A96F830" box="[326,427,2011,2035]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">Sanderia</emphasis>
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that were considered. However, this tree does not show reciprocal monophyly of
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEAED282A6C78890BCBFF73" italics="true" lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="460" pageId="4" pageNumber="459">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282E2B7FC50A5CFF73" bold="true" box="[258,353,151,176]" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="50AE57DAFFEBED282E2B7FC50A5CFF73" box="[258,353,151,176]" pageId="5" pageNumber="460" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282E887FCB0917FF73" box="[417,554,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
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; 28S sequences from medusae that were distinguished morphologically as different species occur together in two distinct clades.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FBE7E560A36FED8" bold="true" box="[151,267,260,283]" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">TABLE 1.</emphasis>
List of taxa and number of individuals used for molecular analyses of COI and 28S markers and accession numbers of sequences.
</paragraph>
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<th id="84085D8DFFEB12D22D9C7E04089EFEAF" box="[693,931,342,364]" gridcol="2" gridrow="0" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">GenBank accession no.</th>
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<th id="84085D8DFFEB12D22B5B7E040E5DFEAF" box="[1138,1376,342,364]" gridcol="4" gridrow="0" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">GenBank accession no.</th>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FB37ED20A78FE55" box="[154,325,384,406]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
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-
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<td id="84085D8DFFEB12D22CDA7EFB0F13FE7C" box="[1011,1070,425,447]" gridcol="3" gridrow="2" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">4</td>
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<accessionNumber id="66BAAB50FFEBED282B5B7EFB0FE6FE7C" box="[1138,1243,425,447]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/KJ573405" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">KJ573405</accessionNumber>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FB37E800BD4FE2B" box="[154,233,466,488]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">Pelagia</emphasis>
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<td id="84085D8DFFEB12D22D6A7E8009BCFE2B" box="[579,641,466,488]" gridcol="1" gridrow="3" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">8</td>
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<th id="84085D8DFFEB12D22FB37EAE0AF4FDF3" box="[154,457,508,560]" gridcol="0" gridrow="4" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FB37EAE0A64FDD1" box="[154,345,508,530]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
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*
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<td id="84085D8DFFEB12D22D6A7EAE09BCFDF3" box="[579,641,508,560]" gridcol="1" gridrow="4" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">8</td>
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<accessionNumber id="66BAAB50FFEBED282D9C7EAE0814FDD1" box="[693,809,508,530]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/GQ375927" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">GQ375927</accessionNumber>
-30
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<accessionNumber id="66BAAB50FFEBED282B5B7EAE0FDAFDD1" box="[1138,1255,508,530]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/HM194865" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">HM194865</accessionNumber>
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<th id="84085D8DFFEB12D22FB37D160AF4FD99" box="[154,457,580,602]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
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sp.
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<th id="84085D8DFFEB12D22FB37D3F0AF4FD40" box="[154,457,621,643]" gridcol="0" gridrow="6" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FB37D3F0AF4FD40" box="[154,457,621,643]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
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<accessionNumber id="66BAAB50FFEBED282B5B7D3F0FDCFD40" box="[1138,1249,621,643]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/AY920778" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">AY920778</accessionNumber>
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<th id="84085D8DFFEB12D22FB37DC40AF4FD6F" box="[154,457,662,684]" gridcol="0" gridrow="7" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
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<th id="84085D8DFFEB12D22FB37D920AF4FD15" box="[154,457,704,726]" gridcol="0" gridrow="8" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
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*
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<td id="84085D8DFFEB12D22D6A7D9209BCFD15" box="[579,641,704,726]" gridcol="1" gridrow="8" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">1</td>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FB37DBB0AB9FD3C" box="[154,388,745,767]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">
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*
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*
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*
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FB37CEB0A2AFC0D" box="[154,279,953,974]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">Desmonema</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="795636B3FFEBED282FBE7B4A082AFBEC" blockId="5.[151,791,1048,1071]" box="[151,791,1048,1071]" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">* Sequences downloaded from GenBank; n/a: not available.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282FBE78C90A2FF873" bold="true" box="[151,274,1947,1969]" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282E3178C90AFEF872" box="[280,451,1947,1969]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
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(A) Oral view with extended marginal tentacles. (B) Sections of tentacles bases showing occurrence of longitudinal muscular foldings in the tentacles of
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282C1F78E9088DF813" box="[822,944,1978,2000]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
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(left) compared with absence from
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFEBED282A0278E90EA1F813" box="[1323,1436,1978,2000]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="460">P. benovici</emphasis>
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tentacles (right). Drawings after
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(modified).
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2FBE7BE60A28FB0A" bold="true" box="[151,277,1204,1226]" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2E347BE60AF6FB09" box="[285,459,1204,1226]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
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(A) Rhopaliar pit (rp). (B) Portion of gastrovascular sinus showing radial septa (rs), subumbrellar perradial warts (sw), tentacular (tp) and rhopaliar (rhp) pouches, rhopalia (rh), and rounded marginal lappets. (C) Gastric filaments (gf), horse-shoe shaped gonads (g), and oral arm (oa) covered by transparent warts. (D) Enlargement of ribbon-like gonad (g) covered by cnidocyst warts (nw) bordering the stomach wall with emergent gastric filaments (gf).
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<subSubSection id="31F36538FFE8ED262FEE7A1F0A2DFC2C" lastPageId="11" lastPageNumber="466" pageId="6" pageNumber="461" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="795636B3FFE8ED2B2FEE7A1F08AFFA35" blockId="6.[151,1440,1357,2030]" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2FEE7A1F0945FAA5" bold="true" box="[199,632,1357,1382]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461" reason="1">Discussion and systematic remarks.</emphasis>
Within the order
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, four families are widely recognized (see
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;
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; Bayha &amp; Dawson 2010)—
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,
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,
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and
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—and a fifth family,
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, has been proposed by Straehler-Pohl
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2BF87AC40E38FA6E" box="[1233,1285,1429,1453]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">et al</emphasis>
. (2011). The
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are easily recognized by emergence of the tentacles at the umbrella margin, the absence of branched pouches of the gastrovascular sinus, and the absence of a ring canal.
</paragraph>
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contains three genera (
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)—
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,
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2B9F79530E26F9DA" box="[1206,1307,1537,1561]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Sanderia</emphasis>
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—of which one,
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2FE779770A7BF9FE" box="[206,326,1573,1597]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Chrysaora</emphasis>
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, was recently revised by
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Morandini and
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(2010)
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. Pelagiid jellyfish bearing eight marginal tentacles and eight rhopalia, as the new jellyfish described here, belong either to
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2B08791B0FA4F9A2" box="[1057,1177,1609,1633]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Chrysaora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or to the monospecific
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2FBE793F0BD3F946" box="[151,238,1645,1669]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Pelagia</emphasis>
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. These two genera are easily distinguished by a number of morphological characters. Namely,
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2A6C793F0EA1F946" box="[1349,1436,1645,1669]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Pelagia</emphasis>
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have conspicuous exumbrellar cnidocyst warts, shallow rhopaliar pits, 16 marginal lappets, and radial septa terminating between rhopalia and tentacles. By contrast,
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2C6479E708F8F90E" box="[845,965,1717,1741]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Chrysaora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
jellyfish have radial septa terminating proximate to the base of the tentacle and a higher number of marginal lappets (3248 [but see
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2B9F798B0E0BF932" box="[1206,1334,1753,1777]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">C. colorata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
below]); additional anatomical features are distinctive characters species within
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2CF679AF0F6AF8D6" box="[991,1111,1789,1813]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Chrysaora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, such as the occurrence of quadralinga and a heavy manubrium in
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2D7C787309E8F8FA" box="[597,725,1825,1849]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">C. colorata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2C25787308BCF8FA" box="[780,897,1825,1849]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">C. achlyos</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
. So far,
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2A3578730EA1F8FA" box="[1308,1436,1825,1849]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">C. colorata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the only known
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2E5B78170AD7F89E" box="[370,490,1861,1885]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Chrysaora</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
with 8 marginal tentacles, but it is distinguished by its outer morphology (large size and star-shaped exumbrellar marks) from the three nominal
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2CD1783B0F72F842" box="[1016,1103,1897,1921]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Pelagia</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
, the well-known
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2AAE78380BC2F866" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
(Forskål 1775)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2EEB78DC0971F866" box="[450,588,1934,1957]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">P. panopyra</emphasis>
Péron &amp; Lesueur 1809
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE8ED2B2C8978DC0FD7F865" authority="Eschscholtz 1829" authorityName="Eschscholtz" authorityYear="1829" box="[928,1258,1933,1958]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="6" pageNumber="461" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="flaveola">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2C8978DC0F25F866" box="[928,1048,1933,1957]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">P. flaveola</emphasis>
Eschscholtz 1829
</taxonomicName>
(
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;
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). A striking difference also resides in life history, in the direct metamorphosis planula-ephyra in
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2E4A78870AFDF82E" box="[355,448,2005,2029]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE8ED2B2E4A78870A80F82E" authorityName="Peron &amp; Lesueur" authorityYear="1809" box="[355,445,2005,2029]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="6" pageNumber="461" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">Pelagia</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
whereas
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE8ED2B2D037887099FF82E" box="[554,674,2005,2029]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="461">Chrysaora</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
have a polypoid stage.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2FBE7A1A0A2AFA9D" bold="true" box="[151,279,1352,1374]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2E0A7A1A0AEEFA9D" box="[291,467,1352,1374]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
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(AB) Cnidocyst warts (or cnidocyst clubs) of different sizes scattered over the subumbrellar gonads. Oocytes (oo) of different sizes and maturity are shown. (C) Discharged microbasic eurytele (eu). (D) Discharged holotrichous isorhiza (is) and microbasic eurytele (eu). (E) Discharged holotrichous isorhiza (o-is). (F) Microbasic eurytele (eu) and third type of cnidocyst (birh), provisionally identified as heterotrichous microbasic birhopaloid II type (
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2A4D7AF70EA0FA79" box="[1380,1437,1445,1466]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">sensu</emphasis>
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).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="795636B3FFE9ED2A2FEE79570EAEF8FD" blockId="7.[151,1436,1541,1854]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">
A thorough analysis of the older literature (
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2D9479570802F9DD" author="Maas, O." box="[701,831,1541,1566]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" pagination="1 - 91" refId="ref7306" refString="Maas, O. (1903) Die Scyphomedusen der Siboga Expedition. Siboga Expedition Monographs, 11, 1 - 91. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11300" type="journal article" year="1903">Maas 1903</bibRefCitation>
; Mayer 1910;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2B8579540E7CF9DD" author="Menon, M. G. K." box="[1196,1345,1541,1566]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" pagination="1 - 28" refId="ref7436" refString="Menon, M. G. K. (1930) The Scyphomedusae of Madras and the neighbouring coast. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, 3, 1 - 28." type="journal article" year="1930">Menon 1930</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2A6779540BEFF981" author="Kramp, P." pageId="7" pageNumber="462" pagination="1 - 469" refId="ref7200" refString="Kramp, P. (1961) Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 40, 1 - 469. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0025315400007347" type="journal article" year="1961">Kramp 1961</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2FF7797B0A4FF981" author="Russell, F. S." box="[222,370,1577,1602]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" pagination="133 - 136" refId="ref7928" refString="Russell, F. S. (1964) On scyphomedusae of the genus Pelagia. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 44, 133 - 136. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0025315400024693" type="journal article" year="1964">Russell 1964</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2E54797B0A8BF981" author="Russell, F. S." box="[381,438,1577,1602]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" refId="ref7971" refString="Russell, F. S. (1970) The medusae of the British Isles II. Pelagic Scyphozoa with a supplement to the first volume on Hydromedusae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 284 pp. Available from: http: // www. mba. ac. uk / nmbl / publications / medusae _ 2 / medusae _ 2 _ complete. pdf (accessed 25 April 2014)." type="book" year="1970">1970</bibRefCitation>
) revealed the morphological features therefore clearly indicate that the new species must be ascribed to the genus
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2E98791C0932F9A5" box="[433,527,1614,1638]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE9ED2A2E98791C0936F9A5" authorityName="Peron &amp; Lesueur" authorityYear="1809" box="[433,523,1614,1638]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">Pelagia</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and the molecular analysis confirmed its distinctiveness from
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE9ED2A2BFF791D0E66F9A5" baseAuthorityName="Forskal" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1238,1371,1614,1638]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="noctiluca">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2BFF791D0E66F9A5" box="[1238,1371,1614,1638]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, with the complication that phylogenetic analyses of 28S suggest incomplete lineage sorting of this more slowly evolving nuclear marker, amplification of paralogues, or hybridization between
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2C9079C50F09F96D" box="[953,1076,1686,1710]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">P. benovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE9ED2A2B4479C50FCFF96D" baseAuthorityName="Forskal" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1133,1266,1686,1710]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="noctiluca">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2B4479C50FCFF96D" box="[1133,1266,1686,1710]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Each of these three processes could be responsible for the conflict between gene and species trees. So far, besides
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2BC679E80E4FF911" box="[1263,1394,1722,1746]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, all other nominal species of this genus are considered doubtful (
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2C4F798F08C1F935" author="Kramp, P." box="[870,1020,1757,1782]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" pagination="1 - 469" refId="ref7200" refString="Kramp, P. (1961) Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, 40, 1 - 469. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0025315400007347" type="journal article" year="1961">Kramp 1961</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2B25798F0E22F935" author="Gul, S. &amp; Morandini, A. C." box="[1036,1311,1757,1782]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" pagination="86" refId="ref7099" refString="Gul, S. &amp; Morandini, A. C. (2013) New records of scyphomedusae from Pakistan coast: Catostylus perezi and Pelagia cf. noctiluca (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Marine Biodiversity Records, 6, e 86. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 1755267213000602" type="journal article" year="2013">Gul &amp; Morandini 2013</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE9ED2A2A06798F0BE9F8D9" author="Cornelius, P. F. S." pageId="7" pageNumber="462" refId="ref6494" refString="Cornelius, P. F. S. (2013) Pelagia Peron &amp; Lesueur, 1810. Available from: http: // www. marinespecies. org / aphia. php? p = taxdetails &amp; id = 135262 (accessed 4 March 2014)" type="url" year="2013">Cornelius 2013</bibRefCitation>
). Indeed, no nominal species of
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2D7878500995F8D9" box="[593,680,1794,1818]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">Pelagia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be referred to the presently described material (
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), and
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE9ED2A2FBE78740A69F8FD" authority="Piraino &amp; Aglieri &amp; Martell &amp; Mazzoldi &amp; Melli &amp; Milisenda &amp; Scorrano &amp; Boero, 2014" authorityName="Piraino &amp; Aglieri &amp; Martell &amp; Mazzoldi &amp; Melli &amp; Milisenda &amp; Scorrano &amp; Boero" authorityYear="2014" box="[151,340,1830,1854]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="benovici" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2FBE78740A69F8FD" box="[151,340,1830,1854]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE9ED2A2E7278770A89F8FD" bold="true" box="[347,436,1829,1854]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="50AE57DAFFE9ED2A2E7278770A89F8FD" box="[347,436,1829,1854]" pageId="7" pageNumber="462" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
is described here as a new species by a combination of morphological features, notably:
</paragraph>
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• densely distributed and irregularly shaped (rounded to arrow-pointed) exumbrellar cnidocyst warts (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFE9ED2A2A01783F0E51F845" box="[1320,1388,1901,1926]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="10.[151,250,835,857]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,193,813]" captionTargetId="figure-186@10.[151,1436,193,813]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 7. Appearance of exumbrellar warts, gonad morphology and colour in (A) Pelagia noctiluca (A) and (B) Pelagia benovici sp. nov." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914991" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914991/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
);
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• milky white (same colour both in female and male specimens) horse-shoe shaped, outwardly convex gonads (
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), protruding out of the subumbrellar surface;
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• club-shaped cnidocyst warts on gonadal ribbons (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFE9ED2A2DD878880876F830" box="[753,843,2010,2035]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1204,1226]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetId="figure-392@6.[151,1436,181,1192]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 4. Pelagia benovici sp. nov. (A) Rhopaliar pit (rp). (B) Portion of gastrovascular sinus showing radial septa (rs), subumbrellar perradial warts (sw), tentacular (tp) and rhopaliar (rhp) pouches, rhopalia (rh), and rounded marginal lappets. (C) Gastric filaments (gf), horse-shoe shaped gonads (g), and oral arm (oa) covered by transparent warts. (D) Enlargement of ribbon-like gonad (g) covered by cnidocyst warts (nw) bordering the stomach wall with emergent gastric filaments (gf)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914985" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914985/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="462">Fig. 4D</figureCitation>
);
</paragraph>
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• white transparent colour of tentacles, manubrium and oral arms (
<figureCitation id="E1D22A36FFE6ED252CF37FC50F19FF73" box="[986,1060,151,176]" captionStart="FIGURE 8" captionStartId="10.[151,250,1645,1667]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,937,1623]" captionTargetId="figure-195@10.[151,1436,937,1623]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 8. Appearance (structure, colour) of oral arms and tentacles in (A) Pelagia noctiluca and (B) Pelagia benovici sp. nov." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914993" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4914993/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
), tentacles without longitudinal muscular folds (
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).
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252FBE7E560A36FED8" bold="true" box="[151,267,260,283]" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">TABLE 2.</emphasis>
Comparison of diagnostic characters of species in the genus
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252C857E5108C2FED8" box="[940,1023,259,283]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Pelagia</emphasis>
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(based on Mayer 1910;
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;
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,
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,
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,
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; and present work). The asterisk (*) indicates the minimum size of recorded mature specimens, but the actual size at the onset of sexual maturity still remains unknown.
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252E627E250AFFFE4F" box="[331,450,374,396]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE6ED252D4A7E2509F3FE4F" authorityName="Eschscholtz" authorityYear="1829" box="[611,718,374,396]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="8" pageNumber="463" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="flaveola">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252D4A7E2509F3FE4F" box="[611,718,374,396]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">P. flaveola</emphasis>
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(nomen dubium)
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<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE6ED252C527E2508C8FE4F" authorityName="Peron &amp; Lesueur" authorityYear="1809" box="[891,1013,375,396]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="8" pageNumber="463" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="panopyra">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252C527E2508C8FE4F" box="[891,1013,375,396]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">P. panopyra</emphasis>
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(nomen dubium)
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<th id="84085D8DFFE612D22BBB7E240EA8FE68" box="[1170,1429,374,427]" gridcol="4" gridrow="0" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">
<taxonomicName id="BEE94D30FFE6ED252BBB7E250E3CFE4F" authorityName="Piraino &amp; Aglieri &amp; Martell &amp; Mazzoldi &amp; Melli &amp; Milisenda &amp; Scorrano &amp; Boero" authorityYear="2014" box="[1170,1281,374,396]" class="Scyphozoa" family="Pelagiidae" genus="Pelagia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Semaeostomeae" pageId="8" pageNumber="463" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="benovici">
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252BBB7E250E3CFE4F" box="[1170,1281,374,396]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">P. benovici</emphasis>
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<th id="84085D8DFFE612D22FB67EEC0A0CFDF3" box="[159,305,446,560]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Umbrellar shape and size at maturity (mm)</th>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22E627EEC0973FDF3" box="[331,590,446,560]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Hemispherical, thick jelly 35 to 130</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22D4A7EEC0857FDF3" box="[611,874,446,560]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Bell rounded, flatter than an hemisphere 16 to 30 (*)</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22C527EEC0F40FDF3" box="[891,1149,446,560]" gridcol="3" gridrow="1" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Bell rounded. Width to 50 mm</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22BBB7EEC0EA8FDF3" box="[1170,1429,446,560]" gridcol="4" gridrow="1" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Flat to hemispherical during active swimming. Thin jelly. 30? to 55 (*)</td>
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<th id="84085D8DFFE612D22FB67D300A0CFD30" box="[159,305,610,755]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Color</th>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22E627D300973FD30" box="[331,590,610,755]" gridcol="1" gridrow="2" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Exumbrella: mauve to pink to yellowish brown oral arms and tentacles: same as exumbrella. gonads: red to purple</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22D4A7D300857FD30" box="[611,874,610,755]" gridcol="2" gridrow="2" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Exumbrella: light brown (jelly colourless and transparent) (oral arms and tentacles) gonads</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22C527D300F40FD30" box="[891,1149,610,755]" gridcol="3" gridrow="2" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Colourless to reddish, oral arms speckled rose- red, gonad reddish</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22BBB7D300EA8FD30" box="[1170,1429,610,755]" gridcol="4" gridrow="2" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Exumbrella: yellow ochre; gonads: milky white</td>
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<th id="84085D8DFFE612D22FB67C770A0CFBF3" box="[159,305,805,1072]" gridcol="0" gridrow="3" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Warts</th>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22E627C770973FBF3" box="[331,590,805,1072]" gridcol="1" gridrow="3" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Rounded and somehow scattered on exumbrellar dome; elliptical, dense on peripheral areas; dome- shaped, uniformly pigmented with cross foldings. Absent on gonad foldings</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22D4A7C770857FBF3" box="[611,874,805,1072]" gridcol="2" gridrow="3" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Colourless, except white tip. Large, thick-set, egg shaped to rounded to somewhat pointed. Height of central dome warts four times the width, becoming progressively less towards the margin</td>
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Linear, low surface warts, radially and regularly oriented from exumbrella dome to margin. Less packed than in
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252B607CF308ECFC17" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">P. benovici</emphasis>
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<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22BBB7C770EA8FBF3" box="[1170,1429,805,1072]" gridcol="4" gridrow="3" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Rounded to arrow pointed, densely and uniformly packed on exumbrellar dome and periphery. Present also on gonad foldings</td>
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<th id="84085D8DFFE612D22FB67B300A0CFAD1" box="[159,305,1122,1298]" gridcol="0" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Oral arms</th>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22E627B300973FAD1" box="[331,590,1122,1298]" gridcol="1" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Same colour as exumbrella, peripheral areas covered by pigmented warts (same as exumbrella)</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22D4A7B300857FAD1" box="[611,874,1122,1298]" gridcol="2" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Light brown to orange red</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22C527B300F40FAD1" box="[891,1149,1122,1298]" gridcol="3" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Long oral arms, colourless to speckled rose-red</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22BBB7B300EA8FAD1" box="[1170,1429,1122,1298]" gridcol="4" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">White, transparent. Short oral tube; long delicate oral arms with highly frilled edges. Covered by small transparent cnidocyst warts</td>
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<th id="84085D8DFFE612D22FB67A160A0CFA17" box="[159,305,1348,1492]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Tentacles</th>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22E627A160973FA17" box="[331,590,1348,1492]" gridcol="1" gridrow="5" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Dark-red to pink to brownish, Tentacle proximal base elliptical, including muscular foldings in the mesoglea</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22D4A7A160857FA17" box="[611,874,1348,1492]" gridcol="2" gridrow="5" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Tentacle proximal base elliptical, including muscular foldings in the mesoglea</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22C527A160F40FA17" box="[891,1149,1348,1492]" gridcol="3" gridrow="5" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">White to rose Apparently bearing muscular foldings in the mesoglea</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22BBB7A160EA8FA17" box="[1170,1429,1348,1492]" gridcol="4" gridrow="5" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">White transparent Tentacle proximal base elliptical, without muscular foldings in the mesoglea</td>
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<th id="84085D8DFFE612D22FB679540A0CF917" box="[159,305,1542,1748]" gridcol="0" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Gonads</th>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22E6279540973F917" box="[331,590,1542,1748]" gridcol="1" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Purple (male) to reddish (female), convolute foldings in gastric pouches reaching base of manubrium. Outgrowth only on central sectors of gastric pouches.</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22D4A79540857F917" box="[611,874,1542,1748]" gridcol="2" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Light brown, yellowish</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22C5279540F40F917" box="[891,1149,1542,1748]" gridcol="3" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Dark-orange to reddish, convolute foldings</td>
<td id="84085D8DFFE612D22BBB79540EA8F917" box="[1170,1429,1542,1748]" gridcol="4" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">Milky white in colour, horse-shoe shaped with peripheral convexity, developed directly on the subumbrellar surface</td>
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<paragraph id="795636B3FFE6ED252FEE784B0A11F802" blockId="8.[151,1436,1817,1986]" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">
The findings of sexually mature specimens at sites several hundreds of kilometers apart indicate the possibility of an established population spreading in the North Adriatic.
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remarked that pelagiid systematics was oddly neglected, in spite of the conspicuous sizes, distinctive morphologies, and painful stings of these jellyfish. The same authors predicted that new pelagiids likely would be discovered, and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE6ED252BE878D40E01F85E" box="[1217,1340,1925,1949]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="463">P. benovici</emphasis>
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seems a point in case.
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE7ED242FBE780A0A2EF8AE" bold="true" box="[151,275,1880,1902]" pageId="9" pageNumber="464">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
(A) Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo COI gene tree.
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE7ED242C48780A0F31F8AD" box="[865,1036,1880,1902]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="464">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
sequences group together as a single distinct clade. (B) Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo tree (28S sequences).
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE7ED242CC478250FA5F84E" box="[1005,1176,1911,1933]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="464">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
sequences group appear in each of two clades with
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE7ED242EDE78C40952F868" box="[503,623,1941,1963]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="464">P. noctiluca</emphasis>
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sequences, suggesting incomplete lineage sorting of this more slowly evolving nuclear marker, amplification of paralogues, or interspecific hybridization. The tree supports the monophyly of
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. In both panels, numbers at nodes indicate posterior probabilities, and the scale indicates the number of substitutions per site.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272FBE7C110A29FC9B" bold="true" box="[151,276,835,857]" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
Appearance of exumbrellar warts, gonad morphology and colour in (A)
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272B257C110FFFFC9A" box="[1036,1218,835,857]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Pelagia noctiluca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(A) and (B)
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272A647C110BD0FCB4" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272FBE793F0A29F941" bold="true" box="[151,276,1645,1667]" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">FIGURE 8.</emphasis>
Appearance (structure, colour) of oral arms and tentacles in (A)
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272C9F793E0F56F941" box="[950,1131,1644,1666]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Pelagia noctiluca</emphasis>
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and (B)
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272BE0793E0E4BF941" box="[1225,1398,1644,1666]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Pelagia benovici</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272FEE799C0AECF924" bold="true" box="[199,465,1742,1767]" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Native or introduced?</emphasis>
The first alien jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea,
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272B30799D0E28F925" box="[1049,1301,1742,1766]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Cassiopea andromeda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, was found near
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at the beginning of the 20th century (
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE4ED272DE779A0086CF8C8" author="Maas, O." box="[718,849,1778,1803]" pageId="10" pageNumber="465" pagination="1 - 91" refId="ref7306" refString="Maas, O. (1903) Die Scyphomedusen der Siboga Expedition. Siboga Expedition Monographs, 11, 1 - 91. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11300" type="journal article" year="1903">Maas 1903</bibRefCitation>
). Since then, three non-native jellyfish species have been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea:
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272DB9784408BEF8ED" box="[656,899,1814,1838]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Phyllorhiza punctata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272CE178440F83F8ED" box="[968,1214,1814,1838]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Rhopilema nomadica</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE4ED272BFC78440E64F8EC" author="Galil, B. S. &amp; Spanier, E. &amp; Ferguson, W." box="[1237,1369,1814,1839]" pageId="10" pageNumber="465" pagination="95 - 105" refId="ref6915" refString="Galil, B. S., Spanier, E. &amp; Ferguson, W. (1990) The Scyphomedusae of the Mediterranean coast of Israel, including two Lessepsian migrants new to the Mediterranean. Zoologisches Mededlingen, 64, 95 - 105." type="journal article" year="1990">Galil 1990</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272FBE78690A57F891" box="[151,362,1850,1874]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">Marivagia stellata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE4ED272E5D786809AAF890" author="Galil, B. S. &amp; Gershwin, L. - A. &amp; Douek, J. &amp; Rinkevich, B." box="[372,663,1850,1875]" pageId="10" pageNumber="465" pagination="331 - 340" refId="ref6961" refString="Galil, B. S., Gershwin, L. - A., Douek, J. &amp; Rinkevich, B. (2010) Marivagia stellata gen. et sp. nov. (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), another alien jellyfish from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Aquatic Invasions, 5, 331 - 340. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2010.5.4.01" type="journal article" year="2010">Galil and Gershwin 2010</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(
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Galil
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272DC57869081DF891" box="[748,800,1850,1874]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">et al</emphasis>
. 2010
</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272CAD78690F29F891" box="[900,1044,1850,1874]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">R. nomadica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272B7878690FF1F891" box="[1105,1228,1850,1874]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">M. stellata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also were new to science.
</paragraph>
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When
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272E3D78D10AADF859" box="[276,400,1922,1946]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">M. stellata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described as a new species from the Israeli Mediterranean coast,
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Galil
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE4ED272A2278D10E7DF859" box="[1291,1344,1922,1946]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="465">et al</emphasis>
. (2010)
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cautiously considered it as a non-native species and a probable Lessepsian immigrant, assuming that a native, coastal conspicuous jellyfish, markedly different from all known scyphozoans of the Mediterranean Sea, would hardly have escaped attention until the 21
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century. Recently, the finding of
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262B257FC90FBAFF70" box="[1036,1159,155,179]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">M. stellata</emphasis>
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off the coast of
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,
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(
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Galil
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262E0F7F920A67FF14" box="[294,346,191,215]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">et al</emphasis>
. 2013
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) corroborated this hypothesis and established this species as the fourth Erythrean alien jellyfish species introduced in the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. Similarly, given the number of marine biological stations in the Adriatic Sea, the long history of investigations on gelatinous zooplankton in the area, and the increasing attention on jellyfish blooms in recent years, it is highly unlikely that
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262B9B7E790E10FE80" box="[1202,1325,299,323]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">P. benovici</emphasis>
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remained unnoticed until 2013, when a large population of mature jellyfish suddenly appeared and then persisted in a restricted area. The North Adriatic Sea, particularly the Gulf of Venice, is a major hotspot for introduction of alien species by shipping- and aquaculture-mediated in Europe (Occhipinti
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262C9F7ECA08D4FE6C" box="[950,1001,407,431]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">et al</emphasis>
. 2011;
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE5ED262B687EC40F81FE6C" author="Galil, B. S." box="[1089,1212,406,431]" pageId="11" pageNumber="466" pagination="299 - 311" refId="ref6798" refString="Galil, B. S. (2012) Truth and consequences: the bioinvasion of the Mediterranean sea. Integrative Zoology, 7, 299 - 311. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1749 - 4877.2012.00307. x" type="journal article" year="2012">Galil 2012</bibRefCitation>
) and an increase in shipping related invasions has been noted recently (
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE5ED262DC47EE80850FE10" author="Galil, B. S." box="[749,877,442,467]" pageId="11" pageNumber="466" pagination="359 - 372" refId="ref6749" refString="Galil, B. S. (2009) Taking stock: inventory of alien species in the Mediterranean Sea. Biological Invasions, 11, 359 - 372. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10530 - 008 - 9253 - y" type="journal article" year="2009">Galil 2009</bibRefCitation>
). Re-discovery of rare jellyfish (e.g.
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262A307EE90BDEFE34" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">Rhizostoma luteum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the
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Strait or the native
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262D597EB208BAFE34" box="[624,903,479,503]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">Drymonema dalmatinum</emphasis>
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in the Adriatic Sea) after almost a century-long absence (Bayha &amp; Dawson 2010 for a review;
<bibRefCitation id="1D784B42FFE5ED262DE47D5008A2FDD8" author="Prieto, L. &amp; Armani, A. &amp; Macias, D." box="[717,927,514,539]" pageId="11" pageNumber="466" pagination="3241 - 3247" refId="ref7875" refString="Prieto, L., Armani, A. &amp; Macias, D. (2013) Recent stranding of the giant jellyfish Rhizostoma luteum Quoy and Gaimard, 1827 (Cnidaria: Schyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Marine Biology, 160, 3241 - 3247." type="journal article" year="2013">
Prieto
<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262C357D510864FDD8" box="[796,857,515,539]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">et al.</emphasis>
2013
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) suggests some scyphozoans might remain undetected for a very long time and re-appear suddenly, perhaps linked to the presence of an asexually reproducing polyp stage in the life cycle (
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Boero
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. 2008
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). However, this is unlikely to be the case for
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. The genus
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is thought to lack a polyp stage, although this needs to be confirmed for
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. By its currently restricted distribution in the Gulf of Venice (
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), its conspicuous bloom, and each medusas unignorable size,
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seems most likely to be another alien species introduced by human activities into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Most probably,
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was transported as viable jellyfish in the ballast waters of ships coming from the native area of this species, where it remains still undetected. This is the third case of a new species discovered in the Mediterranean but native to different seas, after the Erythrean immigrants
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262B617C710E31FCF9" box="[1096,1292,803,827]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">Alpheus migrans</emphasis>
(Decapoda)
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Lewinson and Holthuis 1978, and the rhizostome jellyfish
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<emphasis id="4B9DEAA1FFE5ED262C177C1A0F2DFC9C" box="[830,1040,839,863]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="466">Marivagia stellata</emphasis>
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. The life cycle of
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still remains unknown, but this new taxon looks like an invasive species with the potential to form large blooms. It may have potential to spread across the Adriatic and neighbouring seas, raising the need for research efforts on mechanisms driving bioinvasions and on the impact of outbreak-forming species, as
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recently advocated.
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