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Cotylorhiza erythraea Stiasny, 1920 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), yet another erythraean jellyfish from the Mediterranean coast of Israel

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An unfamiliar scyphozoan jellyfish species has been observed along the Mediterranean coast of Israel since 2003. Morphological characters such as the densely anastomosed radial canals and the stalked cupped appendages on the oral arms identified it as closely allied to Cotylorhiza. Comparison with the type of C. erythraea, collected over a century ago in the Suez Canal, shows close similarity. Molecular analyses based on the mitochondrial barcoding gene cytochrome oxidase sub unit I (COI) and 28S ribosomal DNA support its placement among the Cepheidae. This is the fifth-introduced scyphozoan species recorded along the Mediterranean coast of Israel. The presence of sexually mature specimens detected as far back as 2003, and the occurrence of the species in the past summer at sites nearly 90 kms apart, indicate the existence of widespread, established populations.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Oz Rittner, the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, for editing the photographs, to Dr. Arik Diamant, National Center for Mariculture, Eilat, for bibliographic assistance and to J. van Egmond, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, for the loan of a specimen identified by Stiasny. Partial funding was received by BSG from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under Grant Agreement No. 287844 for the project “Towards COast to COast NETworks of marine protected areas (from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential” (COCONET), and by BR and JD from the Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources, Israel (Barcoding of the Israeli Marine Biota).

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  1. National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, POB 8030, Haifa, 31080, Israel

    Bella S. Galil, Hadas Lubinevsky, Jacob Douek, Guy Paz & Baruch Rinkevich

  2. Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services, 5/20 Hampden Rd, Battery Point, TAS, 7004, Australia

    Lisa-Ann Gershwin

  3. South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia

    Lisa-Ann Gershwin

  4. Maagan Michael, 37805, Israel

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  5. Hatam Sofer 3, Tel Aviv, 62482, Israel

    Amit Rahav

  6. Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Shevy B-S. Rothman

  7. The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5920002, Israel

    Maoz Fine

  8. The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science, POB 469, Eilat, Israel

    Maoz Fine

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Galil, B.S., Gershwin, LA., Zorea, M. et al. Cotylorhiza erythraea Stiasny, 1920 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), yet another erythraean jellyfish from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Mar Biodiv 47, 229–235 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0449-6

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