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Subadult
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medusae with bell diameters
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size. Bell relatively high, apical jelly about 1/2 of bell height. Stomach wide, 7/10 of bell diameter. Mouth rim with numerous, long, thin fimbriae (
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). Radial canals thin, 100 to 240, often also with 15 to 100 developing centrifugal canals. 14 to 25 fully developed tentacles, between pairs of tentacles 3-5 small bulbs without tentacles. Ratio of radial canals to tentacles 7.5 to 10, thus always many more radial canals than tentacles. Tentacles in life either with a distinct conical basal bulb with a slight depression of upper side (
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) or widened laterally to give a T-shape (
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). Abaxial spurs absent. Small, abaxial excretory papillae can be present, only seen in preserved material. Tentacle bases in preserved material usually also with lateral expansions (
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), but some simply conical (
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). Statocysts about as numerous as radial canals but not in phase with them, two statoliths per statocyst.
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Fig. 41.
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. (A-B) BFLA4308, size 31 mm. (C) BFLA4308, bell margin. (D) BFLA4332, bell margin. (E) BFLA4308, bell margin after preservation. (F) BFLA4332, bell margin after preservation. (G) Bell margin of animal photographed 07-FEB-2020, size 30 mm; the green dots flanking the bulbs are likely due to interference effects and not a pigment.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,259,368,393]" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">16S data:</emphasis>
The three haplotypes had a range of base pair divergences of 0.2 to 0.5 % (
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). The maximum likelihood tree of the partial 16S sequences (
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) identified them as very closely related to
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<emphasis box="[599,756,465,488]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. taiwanensis</emphasis>
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(p-distances 0.2-0.64%).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,301,543,567]" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Distribution:</emphasis>
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strait, Florida (this study).
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locality:
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Strait.
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<subSubSection pageId="69" pageNumber="305" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="69.[151,757,623,2055]" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,264,623,647]" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Remarks:</emphasis>
This material resembles very much
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Aequorea pensilis</emphasis>
(
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)
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, only the lateral expansions of the bulbs are shorter and sometimes absent in preserved material, and small excretory papillae can be present. Our identification of the present material as
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<emphasis box="[151,308,783,806]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. taiwanensis</emphasis>
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was based on the strong similarity of the 16S sequences (
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). The haplotype divergences to the published sequences from
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Strait were only 0.2 to 0.64%, while within the Florida population we found a maximal value of 0.5%, thus intra- and interpopulation divergences are in the same range. In the ML tree (
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) the distance of the two population appears higher than the values obtained by pairwise comparisons. This is due to the fact that another substitution model was used for the distance calculation and more importantly, the sequences from the
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Strait specimens were 112 bases shorter at the 3 end, leading to a bias in the ML analysis. While the similarity of our sequences with
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<emphasis box="[516,675,1199,1222]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. taiwanensis</emphasis>
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almost certainly implies that our material is conspecific, it must be noted that so far no
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<emphasis box="[400,591,1263,1287]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Aequorea pensilis</emphasis>
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16S sequences are available. It might turn out that
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<emphasis box="[590,755,1295,1318]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. taiwanensis</emphasis>
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is in fact a synonym of
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<emphasis box="[436,633,1327,1351]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Aequorea pensilis</emphasis>
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.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">
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,
</emphasis>
according to the description in Zehng
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">et al.</emphasis>
(2009), resembles
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<emphasis box="[385,496,1391,1415]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. pensilis</emphasis>
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but lacks the diagnostic long lateral expansions of the tentacle base and it has excretory papillae (comp.
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;
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;
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: Fig. 268). In our material, the lateral expansions were present, but also not as wide as usually shown for
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<emphasis box="[269,382,1551,1575]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. pensilis</emphasis>
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. Our material is thus intermediate between
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<emphasis box="[249,363,1583,1607]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. pensilis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[420,579,1583,1606]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. taiwanensis</emphasis>
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. The specimens of
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Zheng
<emphasis box="[257,311,1615,1639]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">et al.</emphasis>
(2009)
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measured only
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, were thus likely younger than ours, which reached up to
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diameter. Pacific
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<emphasis box="[348,546,1679,1703]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Aequorea pensilis</emphasis>
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reach
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in diameter (
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).
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The Atlantic occurrence of a rare
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<emphasis box="[501,604,1743,1766]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Aequorea</emphasis>
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medusa of the Western Pacific Ocean is surprising, but not unparalleled.
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recently found
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">Aequorea australis</emphasis>
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in the
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of
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, a species formerly only known from the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
</paragraph>
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Fig. 42.
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spec. 2
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. (A-B) BFLA4313, size 7 mm, oral view.
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The presence of
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<emphasis box="[322,475,1903,1926]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="305">A. taiwanensis</emphasis>
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in the Atlantic Ocean must not be interpreted as a possible recent introduction. While we found three different haplotypes, the four samples from
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Strait (
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Zheng
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., 2014
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) represented only a single one. The higher haplotype diversity in the Altantic argues against a recent introduction from the Pacific. The species has likely a wide distribution.
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