New Approaches to Study Jellyfish

Magalhães, Catarina; Martins, Alfredo; Santos, Antonina Dos

doi:10.1201/9781351021821-13

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“…Marine stations, such as the MARE Outpost, offer a significant advantage for the study of these organisms since they allow continuous surveillance of the coastal area and easy sampling by SCUBA and free diving. In addition, citizen science could also offer substantial help in the study of gelatinous plankton, as it can enable monitoring programs on large geographic and temporal scales, while increasing biodiversity awareness among the general public, e.g., [86][87][88][89][90][91].…”

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Project “Biodiversity MARE Tricase”: A Species Inventory of the Coastal Area of Southeastern Salento (Ionian Sea, Italy)

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Biodiversity is a broad concept that encompasses the diversity of nature, from the genetic to the habitat scale, and ensures the proper functioning of ecosystems. The Mediterranean Sea, one of the world’s most biodiverse marine basins, faces major threats, such as overexploitation of resources, pollution and climate change. Here we provide the first multi-taxa inventory of marine organisms and coastal terrestrial flora recorded in southeastern Salento (Ionian Sea, Italy), realized during the project “Biodiversity MARE Tricase”, which provided the first baseline of species living in the area. Sampling was carried out by SCUBA and free diving, fishing gears, and citizen science from 0 to 70 m. Overall, 697 taxa were found between March 2016 and October 2017, 94% of which were identified to the species level. Of these, 19 taxa represented new records for the Ionian Sea (36 additional new records had been reported in previous publications on specific groups, namely Porifera and Mollusca Heterobranchia), and two findings represented the easternmost records in the Mediterranean Sea (Helicosalpa virgula and Lampea pancerina). For eight other taxa, our findings represented the only locality in the Ionian Sea, besides the Straits of Messina. In addition to the species list, phenological events (e.g., blooms, presence of reproductive traits and behaviour) were also reported, with a focus on gelatinous plankton. Our results reveal that even for a relatively well-known area, current biodiversity knowledge may still be limited, and targeted investigations are needed to fill the gaps. Further research is needed to understand the distribution and temporal trends of Mediterranean biodiversity and to provide baseline data to identify ongoing and future changes.

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“…Jellyfish are widely distributed throughout the world's oceans (Magalhães et al 2020). Where present, jellyfish can influence ecosystems through their roles as efficient predators (Acuña et al 2011), as prey for higher-order organisms (Pauly et al 2009;D'Ambra et al 2015), or as invading species (Fuentes et al 2010).…”

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First records of the jellyfishes Thysanostoma loriferum (Ehrenberg, 1837) and Netrostoma setouchianum (Kishinouye, 1902) in Hong Kong waters

Terenzini¹,

Falkenberg²

2022

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Jellyfish have wide distributions throughout the world’s oceans, with new species records emerging from increasingly broad areas as novel identification approaches are implemented, including citizen science. Here, the first accounts of Thysanostoma loriferum (Ehrenberg, 1837) and Netrostoma setouchianum (Kishinouye, 1902) in Hong Kong waters are reported based on photographs and videos collected by the Hong Kong Jellyfish Project. Together, these sightings obtained through a citizen science project provide evidence for a greater diversity of jellyfish in Hong Kong oceanic waters than has previously been recognized.

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Report on the occurrence of the hydromedusa Odessia maeotica (Ostroumoff, 1896) in the north-eastern Atlantic revealed by citizen science and integrative taxonomy

Pires,

Froufe,

Secci-Petretto

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New Approaches to Study Jellyfish

Cited by 4 publications

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Project “Biodiversity MARE Tricase”: A Species Inventory of the Coastal Area of Southeastern Salento (Ionian Sea, Italy)

Project “Biodiversity MARE Tricase”: A Species Inventory of the Coastal Area of Southeastern Salento (Ionian Sea, Italy)

First records of the jellyfishes Thysanostoma loriferum (Ehrenberg, 1837) and Netrostoma setouchianum (Kishinouye, 1902) in Hong Kong waters

Report on the occurrence of the hydromedusa Odessia maeotica (Ostroumoff, 1896) in the north-eastern Atlantic revealed by citizen science and integrative taxonomy

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